Abingdon, VA

Today’s original planned mileage was 288, but we ended up going 330 because of route changes (for the better) and circling the downtowns of both Jonesbourgh, TN and Abingdon, VA trying to get a good angle on their Washington County courthouses (VA above.)

Besides the points for the two Washington Counties, we also nabbed the state of Tennessee (NC & VA were scored on the Moss Motors trip back in June.) We entered Tennessee after a drive on an epic sports car road, NC-197 that had branched off NC-226 at Red Hill. I don’t know exactly when and only realized it when I saw a sign that said 395 in a triangle instead of the previous 197 in a square. We didn’t get the usual “Welcome To” sign, so we stopped and took a picture of the first thing we did see with the state name on it, a Tennessee Route 81 sign.

We used 4 different state maps today, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee & Virginia, but tomorrow we’ll only need the Virginia map. And because we now have the Washington County of this state, our only goals will be a couple of Moss Motors distributors in Roanoke & Waynesboro.