Virginia

Virginia, a southeastern U.S. state, stretches from the Chesapeake Bay to the Appalachian Mountains, with a long Atlantic coastline. It’s one of the 13 original colonies, with historic landmarks including Monticello, founding father Thomas Jefferson’s iconic Charlottesville plantation. The Jamestown Settlement and Colonial Williamsburg are living-history museums reenacting Colonial and Revolutionary-era life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia

Lee-Jackson Parkway in Virginia

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Heading out along the four lane Lee-Jackson Parkway in the Shenandoah Valley, aka US Route 11 long bypassed by Interstate 81.

New Market Gap

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I had though I had driven across New Market Gap on the East Lee Highway when I was in Virignia but I have not. It looks like it's a good place to find a lot of hairpin burns and congested highways between Luray and New Market.

Fort Valley

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Fort Valley is a mountain valley located primarily in Shenandoah County, Virginia. It is often called "valley within a valley" as it lies between the two arms of the northern part of the Blue Ridge mountain range in the Shenandoah Valley in the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians geological zone.

Harrisonburg, VA Land Use

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Harrisonburg, Virginia is located the heart of the Shenandoah Valley and is a sprawling college town, surrounded by rolling farm country, much of which is used for crop production -- corn for chicken, cattle and hogs but also a lot of forages. Heading to the west into West Virginia, you leave the farm country away for the hills and mountains of West Virginia.