Name: East Coast Fall Foliage Road Trip - North Carolina, DC, Virginia, West Virginia
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Alright, we're back on the road again this year. It's been a while.

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Finally on the east coast. We're always on the road on the west coast or like in between like going from west to east or east to west but now we're going straight up on the east coast so that's it's my first time not Crystal's though. Yeah I have been to um I drove to Asheville because we're driving to Asheville right now so this whole trip starting from Tampa, Florida then we're going up to Asheville which is about a nine and a half hour drive and I did this last year. I did a solo road trip with Kuma, my dog of course she's with us too. I did it last year for

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Labor Day weekend because I wanted to go see a concert and I just wanted to take like a little trip up to Asheville too. I thought it'd be fun. I am familiar with this drive already and then after that we're gonna go to DC and that's about a seven hour drive I believe from Asheville and then Candy's leaving from DC and then I'm gonna come back down myself and then visit some friends along the way. But yeah this is my first time actually going all the way like further north or east. I always wanted to do an east coast road trip and I'm glad that Candy was able to do it with me a part of it. So we wanted to go to Asheville first because we wanted to see the foliage. That was the main reason why I was going to do this road trip. Initially I was just gonna do this solo but then I started asking around with some friends. I was like hey I'm gonna go on this road trip. I'm not sure if you guys want to like join, come along and you know look at the foliage and do a little bit of hiking and surprisingly two of our friends were on board so they're gonna meet us in Asheville. Candy flew down to Tampa and we're driving together.

Candy's been keeping track of the Blue Ridge Parkway area. I started following the updates on actually their Facebook page. They're really good at keeping it up to date and they post daily photos of the colors changing so right now it is starting to finally change. But the one thing

I noticed that I did not know actually I didn't know anything about Blue Ridge Parkway like until

Crystal told me about it. I just thought oh you drive and you just happen to see some trees along the way that are like a lot of trees changing color but this is an actual specific area. Is it actually a national park? It's not a national park. Okay but it is a specific area called Blue Ridge

Mountain and apparently from their Facebook page what I found out was it has over a hundred tree species which is more than what Europe has. What? Yeah. Really? Yeah I was like oh that's interesting.

I don't know anything about trees but I don't know but apparently there's like a ton of species there tree species there so that was an interesting fact that I found out from the their Facebook page. We did look at the forecast and it looks pretty good. It's sunny all those days and it's going to it's going to range from like 35 to 65 because it really depends on where on the part of the Blue Ridge Parkway you're at because you know you can go to the summit like higher elevation down to like below where Asheville is where it's lower elevation so obviously the lower elevation you know the warmer it's going to be higher you go colder.

So we have like you know some like little short easy hikes kind of planned. Oh also since I have

Kuma I am going to take her to all these locations with us on our drive so she could go on all these little hikes with us. We rented an Airbnb cabin so it's in between Asheville and like the entry into like Blue Ridge Parkway area so it's like in between all that. I kind of want to stay like in a little bit in the mountains where we could have like some kind of remoteness so you know if we're having like some girl talk in the cabin. I brought a bunch of wine, lots of food so we're planning on cooking there tonight and maybe also tomorrow we brought some like sandwich goods too so we'll be prepared for our drive tomorrow and the day after. Actually

I bought a little rice cooker too just for like road trips now because like we eat rice all the time. Yes. And we always make these rice balls on our road trips so it's like super handy it's like really easy to eat so we're just going to make some. Yeah it's easy to eat and to store because you don't have to keep it cool so you don't need a cooler or anything so that's why it's also great for hikes because you can just toss it in your book bag and not have to worry about keeping it yeah you know cool or anything so and it's health and it's healthy my balls are healthy so so we're at Pisgah National Forest and we started off with the Lookingglass waterfall it's beautiful it's really packed because it is like you know high season right now more dogs than

I thought there would be so Kuma's with us she actually did great she was uh braving all those like rocks so you can actually look at the waterfall from overhead or you can go down the stairs to the waterfall like near the base and get really close to it so all right so we made it to Graveyard Fields uh there is a parking area here but it is pretty busy so uh you're gonna have to wait for a spot we waited and then actually didn't have to wait that long so so that's our second no actually that's our third day third day in not Asheville yeah it's Asheville

Asheville and now um we're going making our way towards Lynn Cove Viaduct uh we're gonna start at like the furthest end on our route today and then we're gonna make our way back so last night we did the uh the sunset at Cowee Mountain Overlook yeah and it was really pretty there's a lot of people there uh Kuma decided to take a crap in front of everybody while there's like a nice sunset going on but it was so gorgeous and we took some great photos there so we're at Lynnville Falls yeah made it to Lynnville Falls we didn't think we were gonna make it in here because the parking situation is pretty packed right now I've read it's a pretty easy hike it's a half a mile down to the falls and then half a mile back up all right so we just left Asheville actually not just we've been on the road now for what a couple of hours I believe yeah so we left our checkout at the Airbnb was 10 a.m which is super early but we had to leave that time anyway because our friends were leaving from the airport at 12 50 so it's kind of like perfect timing we are now on our way to DC so it's about a seven and a half hour drive which isn't too bad um along the way so far like we were going through Tennessee gorgeous views yeah really pretty views so they have like a few uh scenic outlooks that you could do we stopped by one of them you can actually like hike up a little bit to another overview area or you can go the other way go up top and do a little hike up there too I think that was really nice that they put those things out there because you do kind of want to take it in because as I was driving I was like oh my god it's so beautiful like I don't want to take it in and sure enough there was like a scenic lookout so we were able to stop there and just take in the views a little bit so now we have about five hours left on our drive we're in Virginia already yeah yeah so that went by really fast it seems like it's pretty fast by two states in two hours yeah we're not two states like it's kind of like this you know I guess it's like it's long but like um vertical wise it's kind of like this I'm like this like I don't even know what that is in my head it makes sense this is a nice uh rest area we came upon here in Virginia it's a very nice rest even the yeah bathrooms are great the best ones I've ever been to like just like on a like a highway rest stop yeah yeah it's so cute uh there's even like this trail in the back here like surrounded by these gorgeous trees yeah so it's mile 108 north on interstate 81 look at this it's so nice back here so good morning so we made it into DC last night around like it was close to eight right now we're on our way to uh the Lincoln Memorial area we're taking Kuma with us after like a couple hours then we're going to drive back with Kuma and leave her in the hotel and then we're going to go back out and explore on our own so right now we're driving through a little bit of traffic because it's 8 30 in the morning so everybody's like on their way to work but it's actually not that bad miss princess miss queen okay so now we're gonna go up to the Lincoln Memorial up here it's under construction still last time I was here in August it was under construction as well

Kuma's getting so much attention from everybody here but yeah so that is the reflecting pool right there and that's the Washington Monument in front of us and then to the left is the Vietnam

Veterans Wall Memorial over there so we're gonna head over there now okay we're finally at the Smithsonian American History Museum it's already like almost two o'clock so I only have like a few more hours a few hours to explore this maybe maybe tomorrow we'll spend a little less time in the morning yeah or start earlier a bit yeah we have a lot to explore here good morning uh so today is another day in DC um last night I'm not even sure what we recorded or if I even said what we were doing but after the museum yesterday at the history museum uh we went back to the hotel we actually yeah we rode the bike uh through like traffic because it was like a really really busy time I was like you know rush hour time like at 5 30 ish so and it's gonna take a while for an uber to come so we're like you know what let's just test out these bikes because everybody was riding bikes there was like some points it was a little bit scary because you are you know weaving through like traffic or people but we did it took about 30 minutes and but it was a lot of fun so much fun we did that and then we were so tired so we're like you know what let's just like try to find something around here to eat I saw like this rooftop bar uh close to our hotel called ladybird so we went up there and had some light bites and cocktails and like the rooftop view was actually really great and the weather was perfect it was like in the 70s it was just like so perfect I can't believe how warm it is right now it's very warm okay so now uh this morning we are going back to uh the national area but we're going to do like the tidal basin area where the martin luther king memorial is and the fdr memorial all right so this is the frank lindy roosevelt memorial fdr tried to keep his use of a wheelchair from the public because he didn't want to be perceived as weak they always wear cool glasses like that too i don't know i don't think so so okay so now we're at the uh natural history museum national national museum wait national i don't know why i can't oh here we go national museum of nature that's why i keep it up so we're here at the national museum of natural history i don't know it's so hard for me to remember all right so this is the hope diamond place where jelly gems and minerals are but this is like the thing missing here this is it this is the hope diamonds all right so i just left dc not too long ago uh candy left this morning um so last night or yesterday after we did the natural history museum we went back to the hotel rested and then we took an uber to this restaurant called la dante a lot of people were raving about it and recommended going there so we made a reservation the night before for seven o'clock the food was great it was phenomenal probably like the best pasta i've ever had and the margarita was phenomenal too but other than that we didn't like everything else about it we didn't like the ambience in there it's kind of like it had like this pretentious vibe it was dark and it was loud you know there's like loud music playing and the acoustics in the restaurant was kind of terrible so you couldn't really hear each other having a conversation maybe it's you know a different vibe at um like breakfast or lunch but dinner i don't know we just didn't enjoy the dinner vibe too much so yeah that's what we did yesterday and then this morning candy had a early flight out at 7 a.m from the reagan airport which is like 15 minutes from dc and so she just took an uber there because i didn't really feel comfortable driving plus i valeted my car so we have to like valet you know get the valet to bring our car and then i have to valet it again because it's coming back to the hotel so yeah so she left and then i stayed in the hotel for a few more hours rested i tried to rest so now i'm driving uh south on 95 and going towards my friend's house they live um i forgot what city or town it is but they live pretty close to Fredericksburg Virginia uh and it's only like an hour and a half from dc but i just wanted to spend some time with them because i haven't seen them in a while they're a couple and married couple and i knew both of them in uh actually middle school so we were like in eighth ninth grade you know at that time they weren't a couple they actually became a couple like years and years later they're both super cool i love them both um you know i visited them before in virginia and they've come down to florida visit me but it's been years since i saw them last so i thought you know what since i'm in the area why not go see them and on the way we stopped me and kuma we stopped by uh this town because i was looking for a exit to get some lunch and fill up i guess and um as i was getting off this exit on i believe it was like exit 160 i saw this nice river um as we were going over a bridge and when i looked up um activities in the area on my iExit app it suggested this river mill park and it was dog friendly so i had some time to kill because they weren't going to be home until a little bit later so i was like okay well why not i just check out this little park with kuma and it was a cute little town so it's a cute historic town and it has this nice river park area with a great view you can go on the bridge with your dog a nice park and the town next to it is this really adorable historic town so if you're you know looking for things to do with your dog on the road uh in virginia near dc i i say it's like a place to stop by it's really cute i think it's you know a nice stop so yeah so now i have about an hour less than an hour to um to my friend's house in virginia and yeah i don't have any set plans while i'm there i just wanted to hang out so i'm just gonna do whatever they suggest and just to kind of take it easy okay so i've made it to uh woodford virginia so last night we went to a local mexican restaurant which was really good they had like some of the best enchiladas i've had uh their shredded chicken is just superb and i think it's called like local local poco i believe and their margaritas uh their sizes are insane they have a small or a large the small is basically a large um anywhere else and then they have like the large size which is like basically a big jug of beer like the beer glass that's what they put the margarita in and then today we're gonna go to i forgot what it's called like boma we're gonna go into the mountains of virginia and check out a couple of breweries and it's also dog friendly so kuma could come with us because kuma is actually back here uh in the back seat she has all this space isn't that nice she's waiting for uh troy and holly right now they went into we're all about to go get some food i don't really like beer so i'll probably have like some wine or cider there and uh yeah just enjoy the scenery and the foliage let's go let's go so this wine slushy is so good it's a white wine and red wine mixed together called a swirl so all right so we're in west virginia at harper's ferry national historic park it's very nice it's actually really close to uh virginia where we were at okay so they have like a lot of my information all right shenandoah pulp factory 1887 1888 so this thing right here so bridge is so cool i can't believe it's like still operating so they have like a good shuttle system here there's been buses going back and forth often to take them to the uh parking lot over there so this is the old downtown from the 1800s it's like a bakery a bookshop but like the trees look so beautiful right now because it's you know in october during the foliage season oh so this is what it was before very cool so big yeah oh so that is that virginia maryland and now we're in west virginia all right so now we're on this street where there's a bunch of shops and restaurants super cute a lot of them are dog friendly these restaurants look amazing this little restaurant looks like the cutest thing i know look how cozy it looks in there it's called coach house bar grout so i left virginia about 7 7 30 in the morning today and now i'm heading to atlanta um but yesterday was such a great day my friends troy and holly were such great hosts but it's been a beautiful drive down i'm on 85 south now but ever since i left like the scenery has just been absolutely gorgeous so yeah i think you know i'm gonna stop by for lunch somewhere not sure where exactly of course it's sunday so i can't stop by chick-fil-a today but i did have chick-fil-a last night uh which was great and then today i don't know like i'm hoping like i could see an ingles because i really really love that pistachio muffin and i've been thinking about it ever since i had it in atlanta i'm staying with my friend kiana i've known her as well since eighth grade and we used to play volleyball together i'll get to meet her two kids this time and you know just catch up and reminisce as well so yeah i will just be enjoying this drive for about five and a half more hours i made it to atlanta kuma's exploring kiana's backyard here look at these tall trees it's crazy well i'm heading back to florida today i left early this morning at seven a little after seven i was thinking about staying sticking around at marietta georgia for a bit to get some coffee and explore the little square there but since i woke up so early and there was no traffic yet going south on 75 i was like i might as well just go now and get home a little bit earlier so last night i got to kiana my friend kiana's home around 5 30 p.m and then she made this lovely delicious dinner and then right after that uh kiana took me to the marietta square which is adorable it's like a little historic town there and they have like um some information about the civil war and its history there so yeah today uh the out the drive from uh marietta to tampa florida is about six and a half hours i did have to drive through atlanta this morning i was a little bit intimidated because there's like tons of lanes i think there's like eight lanes at some point and uh going through downtown is just a little intimidating for me but i did it i think i'm getting a little bit better driving through cities so yeah so this east coast fall foliage road trip turned out excellent i saw lots of colors everywhere up north virginia is absolutely beautiful so yeah so thanks to all my friends who hung out with me it was a lot of fun and thanks for hosting me and kuma at your homes we really appreciate it it was so much fun love all you guys i hope you enjoyed this video if you did please give it a thumbs up and if you want to watch more of our videos please subscribe to our channel thanks for watching