Friday 3 August 4095 steps
Song: Teddy Bear’s picnic sung by many mothers.
We returned to the parkway for a lovely drive through the woods.
We continued on to Skyline drive, which runs through the center of the Shenandoah National Park. The highlight of the day was seeing a mother bear and her cub foraging on the side of the road. Unlike our parks at home, you are not allowed to stop, and there were cars approaching from behind, so David inched forward slowly, but I managed to get some great shots of the cub.
There were also deer and lovely wild flowers and as we left the Skyline to head to our camp, we got stuck for a while behind a vintage car. Luckily the engine was well tuned and it drove like the wind. We left the tranquility of the rural roads for the hectic traffic going in and out of the towns around Washington DC.
Chuckle of the day:
What I learnt: Sometimes I assume people know what is going on in my head, but they don’t. Maybe I should explain the song addition.
My brain has a constant stream of music flowing around it. I sing all the time. Lucky for the people around me, it is mostly contained inside my head. Sometimes it pops out loud, often to the surprise of pupils sitting in my class. When I hear a word or do something, my brain links it to a song. Probably because as a kid I listened to a wonderful old Springbuck radio programme called “Going for a Song”. One team supplies a word and the other has to sing a song containing that word. It may be our most played family game, making car journeys seem shorter and we have had many good evenings around the bar, getting noisier and noisier. So I decided I would share a few of the songs in my head. Feel free to add a comment about a song that pops into your head.
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