Riverwalk Landing, Yorktown, VA

On Sunday, we took a day off from construction and took the bike out to Yorktown for lunch.  Riding is a way for us to relax.

Some of our vacations on the bike are just for the roads and scenery - like riding the Tail of the Dragon, the Back of the Dragon or the Blue Ridge Parkway.  Day rides don't provide the same curvy roads or breathtaking mountain views, so we plan a trip to a historic location or a new place for lunch.

Sunday's trip to Yorktown was lunch trip.  We ate at the Carrot Tree in Yorktown on the Riverwalk Landing. Troy had BBQ (we are big fans of Mission BBQ and that is the gold standard).  I had the Strawberry Fields - turkey, brie, strawberries, almonds, lettuce on a croissant.  It was yummy! And the Carrot Salad was good too - very different from the usual one made with mayo and raisins.  We shared a piece of Carrot Cake for dessert.  (yes I am kind of a foodie.)

We needed to walk off some of the cake so we took a short stroll along the Riverwalk.

Road Trip...

We took a weekend off from the project to scout out Black Dog Salvage in Roanoke, VA for some projects I had in mind.

The weather was great and we had a blast.  Roanoke is so pretty and I love the mountains.

Roanoke is a railroad town.

We stopped at the Taubman Museum to check out a Norman Rockwell exhibit - Troy has a school assignment to do so we worked in it to our schedule.

I remember this picture from my childhood - hanging in my doctors office

And this cool sculpture is made out of 700,000 coffee stirrers!  The artist built it in place and it took a week to build.  It filled a whole room!

And of course when I see a neat building we have to stop and take pictures.  This is St Andrews Catholic Church and it sits on a hill overlooking downtown Roanoke.

Then we went off to Black Dog Salvage in search of some wood, iron work and maybe a few other treasures.  We are fans of the show and it was neat to see things we recognized - like the clock faces from the high school in Newark, NJ.

We got to go to the warehouse where they store the wood and met Jeff.  I was in heaven!  Beams, trusses and wood galore.  Came home with some barnwood.

A little light sanding and my bed goes from plain jane to modern rustic.  

Well the fun is over - back to work.