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Bike Virginia 2004 – Shenandoah Odyssey
Virginia is filled with many places that stir the imagination
with remembrances of a time forgotten. Few places can evoke
a sense of being transported back in time like Virginia’s
Shenandoah Valley. Many mountain passes and forest clearings
have not changed in over 150 years. Neat Scotch, Irish, German,
and Mennonite farms retain the same charm as when they were
constructed. Rough hewn rail fences stand at the "Fields
of Lost Shoes," where in 1864 VMI cadets did not just learn
history, they made it.
Our Shenandoah Valley Odyssey began and ended in the tranquil
town of Bridgewater, home to the finest collection of vernacular
architecture in the Valley. The campus of Bridgewater College
served as our Bike Virginia home. After a day of touring the
valley's majestic scenery and visiting our first of three caverns,
we continued northward to Harrisonburg. Monday, we biked along
the base of the mighty Massanutten Mountain to the historic
town of New Market. All up and down the Shenandoah Valley, we
experienced 300 miles of history, southern hospitality and natural
beauty -- a place that time may have forgotten, but you never
will.
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