So I wrapped up a business trip and left Harrisonburg VA at 6am yesterday for the drive home to RI...and decided that with 63 degrees, partly cloudy, that early on a Sunday morning, I would detour to Skyline Drive.

Here is the route of Skyline Drive in Virginia: (Not Rhode Island )
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&sour...=UTF8&t=h&z=14

The website for it:
http://www.nps.gov/shen/planyourvisi...line-drive.htm

And I am forever grateful I did. Barely anyone there (though I did see, and stop to chat with the owner of, another 8) Kept stopping to take pics, so here they are. I have quite a bit of video, though have to chop it up still, so I'll get that up later.

My only regret is that I couldn't clean/detail my 8 before this. Only a quick wash off at a do-it-yourself car wash. 650 miles of driving, 500 miles from home didn't leave the front bumper looking that great, so no close up shots

Video: (Clips in order)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9CEMGMqGc0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nhoy...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhYE_...eature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oja38...eature=channel
They may look slow, but I was WELL over the speed limit most of the time, so wasn't about to push it farther and get arrested by a bored park ranger. I kept stopping for pictures too

Here are the best of my pics:
http://s725.photobucket.com/albums/w...albumview=grid























I sat there for 5 minutes waiting for the lighting and clouds to line up right between my 8 and the mountain behind it.

 

VERY NICE!!! Thanks for sharing!

 

drooollllsss

 

Great pics! Beautiful country side Rhode Island has. I'd love to see the same pics in the Fall.

 

Nice pics!!

 

awesome !!!!

 

sick for sure

 

lol, i was specting to see pics of a nissan skyline

nice pics BTW

 

Nice pics,

The title fooled me also, I might have to pull my Skyline out and go for a drive.

 

^ ha ha me too!

great pics though, very nice scenery

 

Thanks for the comments all. I worked more than usual on the lighting/background, but mother nature made it hella easy on me

Hehe, not to pick bones, but this is ~500 miles from RI. This is the mountain range that makes up the eastern border of the Shenandoah valley in western Virginia, about 1 hour west of Washington DC. Skyline Drive is a 102 mile road that runs along the top of it with 70+ scenic overlooks.

Only two downsides are:

1) it is regularly patrolled by park rangers, and those nasty federal speeding tickets. (No, still haven't gotten any )

2) generally alot of hikers, campers, sightseers, and other forms of slow pokes. Fortunately, there is frequent dotted yellow sections, and this was all prior to 8am on a Sunday. The only other people up were bikers, who kindly yielded and let me by whenever I encountered them. And the other 8 owner. He and his wife (terrible with ages, maybe 50s?) were out for an early drive and hike before hitting a Dulles auto show.

 

Nice location!

 

Man that scenery is beautiful. Great pics.

 

Looks like a great drive!

 

i love seeing the 8 in its natural habitat :D

 

Very good!

 

awesome scenery, i would love to drive some roads like that.

 

Nice pictures man!

You fooled me too, I was like you drove a SKYLINE?!

 

I was arguing with the Wife I thought it was Pennsylvania and she thought it was Colorado... I was closest

Beautiful location, I always thought RI was flat as a pancake.

 

I added a Google Maps route link and main website link to my first post, for those interested in exactly where it is.

Still working on the video...or rather, working on getting time to work on the video. Probably tomorrow since I will be taking a day off work.

 

Added video to the first post.


Video: (Clips in order)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9CEMGMqGc0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nhoy...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhYE_...eature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oja38...eature=channel

They may look slow, but I was WELL over the speed limit most of the time, so wasn't about to push it farther and get arrested by a bored park ranger. I kept stopping for pictures too

 

Absolutely EPIC detour!! Nice work, and tks for the pics/vids.