Happenings...or lack thereof

What a quick Memorial Day weekend! Where is 2008 going? It has moved along so rapidly.

We went camping in the Grayson Highlands State Park which is near the North Carolina and Tennessee border in SW Va. We arrived around 6 on Friday evening after waiting for probably 20 minutes at the park entrance to check in. Upon arriving at our campsite we quickly got the tent in place, our picnic tent up and the dinner fired up. After dinner we struggled for an hour or more to keep our fire going. The logs refused to light. We used kindling, lighter fluid, kindling and lighter fluid...nothing would keep these logs burning. On Saturday we drove about 15 minutes to the Whitetop Station of the VA Creeper trail. Unknown to us, this trail goes about 18 miles from Whitetop to Damascus straight downhill, the entire way. Hoards of people ride a shuttle, get dropped of at Whitetop and ride their bikes downhill to Damascus where they are picked up and taken back to their cars. Michelle and I did not utilize the shuttle. We drove to Whitetop. Prior to lunch we rode the opposite way into North Carolina for about 2 miles until the old railroad trestles were too dilapidated to walk our bikes across. So, we rode back to the car had lunch and departed downhill towards Damascus. We road about 7 or 8 miles downhill until the trail crossed the Appalachian Trail. This bike trail is really beautiful, but when you then have to turn around and ride consistently uphill back to the car...well, it was tough on us for sure. We had to stop a few times including a stop at the trail side shop for gatorade. We did finally make it. Sunday we did a hike for a couple miles through a wild pony reserve and up to the AT and into the wilderness off the main trail until the trail started to disappear. This was also about the time that we saw what is believed to be bear fur and poop. It being spring, it was now time to turn around.
Review time...and spoiler alert...

WTH is up with the flying saucer at the end of Indiana Jones IV? I understand the aliens and the history stuff that they created these things, but for a long dormant "space ship" to up and take off? Come on. It made a decent movie...terrible.