Luray

And so driving down the road or even, I think, social media can be helpful in this, of finding folks who have certain types of farms in your areas.

If you're looking for alpacas in Luray, you can usually search that on Facebook [laughs] and find a farm.

Yeah.

Maybe go visit, those kind of things.

That was the first real-

Then, like, the switchbacks on 211, like, for around Luray and stuff like that.

But, you know, besides that, you know, this was like...

I mean, as, as far as, like, narrow switchbacks and, like, straight up the mountain, you know, that was...

So, um, if you prefer, like, hotels, um, we kind of mentioned two of them.

And then outside the park, there's plenty, there's plenty of options in the near to- ne- nearby towns of, like, Luray, Charlottesville, Waynesboro, Front Royal, um, you know.

Harrisonburg.

Harrisonburg, yeah.

So there's lots of different towns and options that you can kind of consider.

I'd say my favorite in terms of the towns is probably Luray, or there's another little town called Elkton as well.

Mm-hmm.

Um, we've stayed in both of those towns, and then they're easy commutes into the national park, um, that are pretty centrally located.

"We watch Larry's Country Diner every Saturday night, as do many others in our small, rural town.

We would appreciate it if you would salute Luray, Virginia."

Who? Who? Luray?

Luray.

Luray?

Luray.

Yeah, Luray.

Luray, Virginia.

There really isn't that much else to report about this day as I saw hardly anybody else all day reaching what I thought was my end point on Skyline Drive in mid-afternoon.

I booked to stay at the Open Arms Hostel in Luray and my host Alison sent me a text to continue along the trail and meet her in the Panorama parking lot.

It was still a damp day, though the rain had stopped, fortunately, so by the time I got back to Leray, I was able to set up my tent in her backyard and dry it out, and it dried out pretty quickly.

I love the way this dries out.

I had a bit of a nightmare to be honest with you.

It's just a catalogue of small things really.

As there was no breakfast available at my hostel other than coffee, we decided to go further into Luray and get a couple of breakfast sandwiches from McDonald's.

A couple of sausage egg McMuffins would hit the spot and pump about a thousand calories into me.

Absolutely.

Now, the other Bull Run game of significance, Luray at Madison County.

Luray also coming off a bye.

Um, before that they had lost to Prairie McCord, so they're, they're at 3-2.

Um, we've talked that they had momentum going there for a minute, and then they go down to Buena Vista and, and so...

I mean, Prairie McCord's a good team, so that's not a terrible loss, but, um, it'll be interesting to see if they get back on track.

Madison's only win so far was last week against, you know, Harrisonburg, so, um, a good chance for Luray to get district play started off right.

Uh, Stonewall Jackson of course, which does not play a t- a typical Bull Run schedule, is playing Park View this week.

But then again, you know, they came out last week in Harrisburg and handled business 54-0.

They beat a really good Luray team to open up the season.

They've done a lot of good things.

Their defense has been lights out.

And when it comes to East rock, like you talked about there, they're five and oh, right now.

And I think this, this is going to get really interested.

And once we get down to the regular season, if East Rockingham can stay unbeaten, we've talked so much again, Turner Ashby against Broadway, and we've kind of solidified them as the top two teams, but with East rock, I mean, again, they're five and oh, And so, you know, granted, they've, you know, they had a great win over Luray.

They had a nice win over Central as well.

hello and welcome to the valley today i am your host jenna michael it is tourism tuesday loray page county edition gina illiard back on the zooms with me she is president of the loray page chamber of commerce and we've got a fun guest today gina from one of my favorite places in page county i've actually stayed at one of the cabins Darren, you've hosted several chamber events at Yogi Bear's Jellystone Park, so this is a pretty popular place there in Luray.

It is, and I'm excited to have Brian join us.

Jellystone holds near and dear to my heart.

He is their general manager.

Though he told me before we started recording, everyone just calls him Ranger Brian, which I think is outstanding.

So, Brian, for somebody who hasn't heard of Yogi Bear's Jellystone Park, you're not only in Luray.

You guys have other locations.

Who are you? What are you? Give me some history.