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Old 07-22-2007, 10:00 AM
 
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Made a road trip last week to parts of SW VA covering Montgomery, Floyd, Carroll and probably some more county, the view was just amazing, sometimes spectacular, be a bit careful about winding road though. On way back, Shenandoah valley appeared to be a gem. Ladies and girls tended to be very friendly while some folks a bit reserved (I'm an East Asian ethnically), and beautiful kids stared at me smilling ... wonderful moment of nature and human nature ...

On the practical side, I would probably not to live in a small county for now but rather somewhere close to small county.
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Old 07-22-2007, 06:35 PM
 
Location: Apex, NC
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I'm glad you had a good trip - we hope to see you back in this area again! You could live in the Blacksburg area of Montgomery County and still be reasonably close to Floyd county and the areas you mentioned.

Over here in northwestern Franklin County, we're pretty close "as the crow flies" to Floyd County, but you have to be able to tolerate some gnarly mountain roads. I once made it from my house to Floyd's Cafe Del Sol in 38 minutes. Over the mountains by way of Ferrum Mountain Rd and Five Mile Mountain Rd. Now THAT was a gut wrencher Course, it would have been less than gut wrenching were I driving a Porsche rather than a Prius

Sean
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Old 07-22-2007, 08:45 PM
 
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Thank you for your kind note, Sean, yes, I always wanted to take a road trip but procrastination stood in the way before last week
All and all, it's delightful, so, I'll be back. Winding road isn't bad at all if not for daily driving.
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Old 07-25-2007, 04:25 PM
 
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The thing about "Blacksburg area" is this, many times I'm mistaken as Korean (sometimes as Japanese but I'm originally from China) and because of the tragedy of Virginia Tech, I don't want the unnecessary burden ...
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Old 07-25-2007, 04:33 PM
 
Location: hinesburg, vt
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I'm glad you had a good trip - we hope to see you back in this area again! You could live in the Blacksburg area of Montgomery County and still be reasonably close to Floyd county and the areas you mentioned.

Over here in northwestern Franklin County, we're pretty close "as the crow flies" to Floyd County, but you have to be able to tolerate some gnarly mountain roads. I once made it from my house to Floyd's Cafe Del Sol in 38 minutes. Over the mountains by way of Ferrum Mountain Rd and Five Mile Mountain Rd. Now THAT was a gut wrencher Course, it would have been less than gut wrenching were I driving a Porsche rather than a Prius

Sean
Sean, just curious when you mention the character of Va mountain roads how do they compare to like for example Vt 17 from Huntington to Waitsfield or any other roads in the Chittenden and Addison county areas. Won't be able to get down that way this year, but am planning for next year.
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Old 07-25-2007, 04:43 PM
 
Location: Apex, NC
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Sean, just curious when you mention the character of Va mountain roads how do they compare to like for example Vt 17 from Huntington to Waitsfield or any other roads in the Chittenden and Addison county areas. Won't be able to get down that way this year, but am planning for next year.
At their worst they're as curvy as that stretch of Route 17 but in general they're nowhere near as bad. Furthermore here you have zero to neglible frost heaving so the physical road condition is very good. Very few cracks and no gut wrenching heaves. That helps a whole lot. Plus I don't seem to run into as many "reverse banks" down here, where for example you're bending left and leaning right. I hit those alot in Vermont, never figured out why. For the most part, though, back road throughways are not too twisty. Something more like Route 73 from Orwell to Sudbury, or Route 7 from Middlebury to Rutland. Except without the cracks and heaves

Sean
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Old 07-25-2007, 06:16 PM
 
Location: hinesburg, vt
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At their worst they're as curvy as that stretch of Route 17 but in general they're nowhere near as bad. Furthermore here you have zero to neglible frost heaving so the physical road condition is very good. Very few cracks and no gut wrenching heaves. That helps a whole lot. Plus I don't seem to run into as many "reverse banks" down here, where for example you're bending left and leaning right. I hit those alot in Vermont, never figured out why. For the most part, though, back road throughways are not too twisty. Something more like Route 73 from Orwell to Sudbury, or Route 7 from Middlebury to Rutland. Except without the cracks and heaves

Sean
Thanks for the quick response! Myself, I don't mind the mountain roads, but the wife dislikes them. Just for info Rte 17 up near App Gap is racking up the seasonal motorcycle wrecks. Is that a problem down your way?
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Old 07-25-2007, 10:21 PM
 
Location: Apex, NC
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The highest bike fatalities per capita are up in northern Virginia, which make sense. This whole region of Virginia according to a DOT site I found is below the average # of fatalities per capita. Biking is a big deal in Virginia. There are over 150,000 bikes registered in Virginia, it's more than doubled since 1999.

Sean
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