Beautiful Blue Ridge

Sorry about the short posts so far. We haven't had internet access for a few days, so we've had to update the blog through text messaging and we can only write about two sentences per text message. We hit our first real day of climbing today and everyone did great. We climbed from Afton up onto the Blue Ridge Parkway, reaching 3,330 ft before a fast descent back down to around 1,000 ft. The scenery on the Blue Ridge Parkway was amazing, by far the best we've had in the ride. We ran into a number of interesting people along the Blue Ridge, including a cool Appalachian Trail hiker. We had a little SNAFU and couldn't get into the church in Lexington where we were supposed to be staying, but the pastor of Lexington Presbyterian Church was very kind and let us stay there for the night. Tomorrow we have a pretty easy ride into Roanoke (the website says Buchanan, but we had a slight change of plans). Off to explore Lexington...