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canyonwalkerBlue Ridge Trip '24 #9
Lexington, VA - Mon, 2 Sep 2024. 10:30pm
We're back at the Hampton Inn & Manorhouse in Lexington, VA tonight. Except as I noted last night, we're not in the manorhouse but rather in the walk-out basement level of the institutional building behind it.
One real drag about being down here on the ground level, especially after a couple of humid days in the summer, is that nothing in this room gets dry. Our swim suits are still soaked from using the hot tub last night. Clothes that we wore when it rained on us on the Cascade Falls hike almost 36 hours ago are still damp. Running the AC in the room doesn't help. In fact the AC just seems to hurt our lungs and sinuses. This evening we'll just leave the window open a crack— because 3 inches is all it opens— overnight for fresh air.
This evening we ate dinner at a pizza and sub restaurant next door. It was one of few restaurants open in Lexington on Labor Day. This town is home to two universities— Washington and Lee, and the Virginia Military Institute— but this weekend it's a ghost town. Last night we ate at a Mexican restaurant that was actually Tex-Mex. The food was... tolerable. Tonight's food was also... tolerable. Barely. It was bland. Like, imagine Italian cooking with neither onions nor garlic.
After dinner this evening we enjoyed a soak in the hot tub again, like last night. It's nice that this hotel has a hot tub. And it's outdoors! ...Not that most houses built in 1827 (and renovated in the 1920s) had indoor hot tubs. The weather in the evening has been perfect for enjoying a soak outdoors. It should even be cool enough to provide a nice fresh breeze through the 3-inch gap permitted by our basement window!
Lexington, VA - Mon, 2 Sep 2024. 10:30pm
We're back at the Hampton Inn & Manorhouse in Lexington, VA tonight. Except as I noted last night, we're not in the manorhouse but rather in the walk-out basement level of the institutional building behind it.
One real drag about being down here on the ground level, especially after a couple of humid days in the summer, is that nothing in this room gets dry. Our swim suits are still soaked from using the hot tub last night. Clothes that we wore when it rained on us on the Cascade Falls hike almost 36 hours ago are still damp. Running the AC in the room doesn't help. In fact the AC just seems to hurt our lungs and sinuses. This evening we'll just leave the window open a crack— because 3 inches is all it opens— overnight for fresh air.
This evening we ate dinner at a pizza and sub restaurant next door. It was one of few restaurants open in Lexington on Labor Day. This town is home to two universities— Washington and Lee, and the Virginia Military Institute— but this weekend it's a ghost town. Last night we ate at a Mexican restaurant that was actually Tex-Mex. The food was... tolerable. Tonight's food was also... tolerable. Barely. It was bland. Like, imagine Italian cooking with neither onions nor garlic.
After dinner this evening we enjoyed a soak in the hot tub again, like last night. It's nice that this hotel has a hot tub. And it's outdoors! ...Not that most houses built in 1827 (and renovated in the 1920s) had indoor hot tubs. The weather in the evening has been perfect for enjoying a soak outdoors. It should even be cool enough to provide a nice fresh breeze through the 3-inch gap permitted by our basement window!
