Miles to Go Before I Sleep

Right now we're riding in the car in West Virginia, on our way home!!! I'm writing this now because I'm told we'll be getting in around one in the morning and nobody will be doing any blogging.
One reason we're running so late is that after last night's party festivities, Dad stayed up to fix the GPS cord so now the woman is back, but in consideration of my sensibilities Dad has her turned down, and anyway we pretty much know how to get there. But we were slow getting going this morning and didn't drive away until 9:00.
(We just crossed over the Potomac River which I'm told is very important to our government, and now we're in Maryland.)
We drove through eastern Tennessee in beautiful sunshine and farms on all sides with a lot more of those cows. Then we crossed into Virginia, with low hills and more cows -- in fact, it was pretty much cows all day, with a few sheep and horses mixed in. Around noon we came to the city of Roanoke, and I hate to say it but I really did appreciate all the electronic gear, because Dad started up Mom's laptop computer and her radio broadband connection and got on the Internet and looked up Roanoke, got on the city's website, found a walking tour of downtown Roanoke, wrote down the name of a street, put it in the GPS, turned up the volume on the woman and before you could even figure out what was happening, we were walking around this really cool old downtown marketplace with people selling stuff out of booths -- plants and fruits and vegetables and candles and photographs and more candles.
(We just crossed over into Pennsylvania. Didn't see much of Maryland.)
Dad made me and Mom pose in front of a wiener sign. (I hate those jokes!) Then they had lunch and I had some of Dad's barbecue sandwich because I can leap so high, and to pay him back for the wiener photograph. I made friends with a Boston Terrier who was a little shy, but still nice.
Then it was back in the car and we spent the rest of the day in Virginia. Mom looked at the map and said we drove the longest distance it was possible to drive in Virginia and still stay on one road. The little hills became mountains running up either side of the valley we were in, including the Blue Ridge Mountains. Once we got out of Virginia, Mom and Dad stopped at a chilly picnic table and had some more birthday cake and I had dinner. Now it's snoozing as we drive into the night.
It sure will be good to sleep in our own bed and to see my friends the cats!!!
Sundance and the Two Banditos