July 19

[IFjane]

Certainly not me but it does remind me that I was looking at the satellite image of the area and came upon Syria. What an interesting-looking little place, at least from the geography.

If you ride the long route on the Tour de Madison you will go right through Syria. It's a great little community - no cell service - very isolated. I'd live there if I could....in fact, tried to buy an old church but opted out when the restoration contractor told me how much it was going to cost to make it liveable.

[Zen]

There's also a Lebanon, isn't there?
Funny how that turned out. Well, not funny, but you know what I mean.

I was following the map up the base of the mountain and then found Nethers.
so I googled Nethers and came on this blog that I couldn't stop reading(start at the bottom of the page)
. Turns out it's a work of fiction and she seems to have given up on it but I thought it was quite good.

[IFjane]

Syria is on the other side of Old Rag Mountain from Nethers. Nethers is pretty much just a collection of houses up in the hollow nowadays. The road dead-ends (well, it turns into a fire road that goes up into the Shenandoah National Park). The trailhead for Old Rag is there as well. I want to read this book but have not gotten it yet:

Hippies!