{"id":75,"date":"2008-10-02T18:11:14","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T23:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/?p=75"},"modified":"2009-06-13T12:36:07","modified_gmt":"2009-06-13T17:36:07","slug":"day-17-a-river-a-tree-and-a-rope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/2008\/10\/day-17-a-river-a-tree-and-a-rope\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 17 &#8211; A River, a Tree, and a Rope"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We drove through <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roanoke,_Virginia\">Roanoke<\/a> and then walked through <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Salem,_Virginia\">Salem<\/a>, Virginia. This was a cool day (55 to 65 degrees F). It was also quite windy &#8211; 20 MPH winds.<\/p>\n<p>We drove through <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roanoke,_Virginia\">Roanoke<\/a>. Still we were lost several times and had to back track to find how Route 11 goes through the city. Walking and being separated at times would have been a nightmare.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/roanokecollege.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-77\" title=\"roanokecollege\" src=\"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/roanokecollege-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Salem,_Virginia\">Salem<\/a> is a nice small city.\u00a0 The downtown area is mostly 20th century, but well kept and busy with storefronts and restaurants. It is a good stroll through downtown. The highlight for me was <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roanoke_College\">Roanoke College<\/a> (1842). A college is supposed to look like this. Red brick buildings, trees, walkways. It looks so peaceful and inviting.<\/p>\n<p>South of downtown was a cursed golden mile. Actually it is west of downtown. Highways often wander through the land in various directions. A times today Route 11 went north, west, south, and east. Here is a photo of the golden mile. I hate walking along the sidewalk of these. I know there is economic good and such, but I just don&#8217;t find anything interesting here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/acursedgoldenmile.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-77\" title=\"acursedgoldenmile\" src=\"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/acursedgoldenmile-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Highlight of the day &#8211; a large tree overhanging the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roanoke_River\">Roanoke River<\/a> south of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Salem,_Virginia\">Salem<\/a>. As I approached it I was thinking, &#8220;boy, this is a great spot for a rope to swing on.&#8221; There it was, the imagined rope swing. It was as if someone had placed a marble and brass marker next to the road reading:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fun here for generations<a href=\"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/ropeswingroanokeriver.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-78\" title=\"ropeswingroanokeriver\" src=\"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/ropeswingroanokeriver-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We are definitely out of the Shenandoah Valley. The ups and downs in Route 11 are several hundred feet high.<\/p>\n<p>A sign of encouragement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bristol 135<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the first sign on Route 11 I have seen that mentions the Virginia-Tenessee border town. It is one of our goals for October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips We drove through Roanoke and then walked through Salem, Virginia. This was a cool day (55 to 65 degrees F). It was also quite windy &#8211; 20 MPH winds. We drove through Roanoke. Still we were lost several times and had to back track to find how Route 11 goes through the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,21,5],"tags":[53,58,60,51],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-montgomery-county","category-roanoke-county","category-virginia","tag-colleges","tag-golden-mile","tag-location","tag-rivers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","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=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}