4/22 – 4/24/2010 Two States, One Town

We’ve gotten as far as Bristol, Virginia and have been waylaid by the weather. The weatherman says terrible storms are headed this way and we thought it best to get off the road and just hunker down for a few days. Besides, we’re tired of spending so much time in the truck. He’s tired of driving and I’m tired of riding.

So we ended up in the Lee Highway Campground on, you guessed it, Lee Highway. We are just three miles from the Virginia/Tennessee border so there is also a Bristol, Tennessee.

On Saturday we decided to get pizza for dinner and we ordered from the local Domino’s. I went to pick it up and while waiting the last few minutes I asked the fellow behind the counter what there was to see in the area. He thought for a minute and then his face lit up and he said, “Get back on the Interstate going south and get off at Exit 3.” (we are right off exit 5) “At the end of the ramp turn right and get onto Main Street. When you get to the middle of Main Street you’ll see a bright yellow line painted down the middle of the street. That’s the state line between Tennessee and Virginia!” I just looked at him expectantly waiting for more. That was it. The line between the states is painted in bright yellow down the middle of the road. That’s all this area we are in has to offer. Now of course it would be a different story if NASCAR was racing here right now. Bristol Race Track is here on the Tennessee side of the town.

The campground we’re in…. somehow that word doesn’t really describe where we’re at. It isn’t much more than five rows of a dozen or so parking sites for RV’s. BUT, its nicely kept, its close to the small downtown area and its close to the Interstate but I think its overpriced at $28.50 a night including tax. With not much else in the area that we could find in our books we really didn’t have much choice. I would say that most of the RV’s here are parked on a more permanent basis but I would imagine that not a space could be had for an RV that was passing through this area on a race weekend.