{"id":72,"date":"2008-10-01T15:27:38","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T20:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/?p=72"},"modified":"2009-06-13T12:37:33","modified_gmt":"2009-06-13T17:37:33","slug":"day-16-crossing-the-appalachian-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/2008\/10\/day-16-crossing-the-appalachian-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 16 &#8211; Crossing the Appalachian Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Today we walked through <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Troutville,_Virginia\">Troutville<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cloverdale,_Virginia\">Cloverdale<\/a>, Virginia. We again covered 15 miles. The morning temperature was 55 degrees F and the afternoon was 70 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>These two areas are northern suburbs of Roanoke. Wikipedia describes them as being &#8220;part of the Roanoke Metropolitan Statistical Area.&#8221; If that isn&#8217;t a degrading comment, I don&#8217;t know what is. Anyways, as such, well, they are such and such. I don&#8217;t get much from suburbs. Route 11 tends to be a main drag through shopping centers, care dealerships, mobile home dealerships, RV dealerships, and so on.<a href=\"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/appalachiantrailtroutville.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-73\" title=\"appalachiantrailtroutville\" src=\"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/appalachiantrailtroutville-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two highlights of the day. First, we crossed the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Appalachian_Trail\">Appalachian Trail<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Troutville,_Virginia\">Troutville<\/a>. We cross the trail back on <a href=\"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/2008\/09\/day-5-berryville-through-winchester-virginia\/\">Day 5 <\/a>on Virginia Route 7 east of Winchester. Every day of walking down the roadside I gain more respect for the people who hike the trail. The difficulty of the trail over what we are doing must be ten-fold.<\/p>\n<p>I put this photo and another photo on the Troutville, Virginia page on Wikipedia.<\/p>\n<p>The other small highlight was Kelly&#8217;s Real Deals on the side of the road. Any place with a steer&#8217;s head sticking out of the wall is okay with me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/kellysrealdeals.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-74\" title=\"kellysrealdeals\" src=\"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/kellysrealdeals-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Today we walked through Troutville and Cloverdale, Virginia. We again covered 15 miles. The morning temperature was 55 degrees F and the afternoon was 70 degrees. These two areas are northern suburbs of Roanoke. Wikipedia describes them as being &#8220;part of the Roanoke Metropolitan Statistical Area.&#8221; If that isn&#8217;t a degrading comment, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,21,5],"tags":[48,45,52,49],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botetourt-county","category-roanoke-county","category-virginia","tag-americana","tag-appalachian-trail","tag-signs","tag-wikipedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}