Blue Ridge Mountains -- Hiking!

Continuing on with a few posts from our Blue Ridge Mountains Getaway 2014!

A trip to the Blue Ridge Mountains is never complete without plenty of hiking!  Hiking is one of my favorite reasons to visit this area.  The amount of awesome trails to choose from is almost overwhelming, there are so many!  For this trip, we mostly chose trails that were accessible from the Blue Ridge Parkway.  And let me tell you, just driving along this iconic road provided some awesome scenery with plenty of pull-offs to take in the views.

And once we'd get to the trails and start hiking, plenty more amazing views awaited!

A short hike around Sherando Lake...

A sunset hike along the Appalachian Trail before dinner at Devil's Backbone Brewing Co...

A steep hike to Humpback Rocks...

An Easter Sunday hike along the Riprap trail in Shenandoah National Park...

Yay hiking!  And when we weren't hiking, can you guess where we were?

Yup!  Brewery touring our way through the Blue Ridge Mountain beer scene... :)

Coming up next!*

Savannah, Georgia

I can't believe it's already been almost 2 months since our Hilton Head Island vacation.  I've been a bad blogger & haven't taken the time to sit down and do a few recap posts from our trip until now!  So here we go...

Hilton Head Island is about a 12 hour drive from Pittsburgh.  And we drove it.  Yeah.  On our way down, we made a stop in Virginia to hike part of the Appalachian Trail!  We only hiked about 3 miles, but it was a fun way to stretch our legs.  We even saw a couple "through" hikers.

After our wilderness adventure, we continued driving south and spent the night in Columbia, SC to break up the drive a bit.  Turns out, Columbia is a pretty cool little town!  They even had an awesome brewery: Hunter-Gatherer Brewery.  If you're ever in the area, I highly suggest you check it out!

The next morning, we thought it'd be fun to stop in Savannah, GA on our way to Hilton Head since it was only about 45 minutes out of the way.  I've always heard about how great Savannah is and have wanted to check it out for a long time.  It definitely lived up to my expectations; such a beautiful town!

The trees were so dreamy...

I'm so glad we decided to stop in Savannah.  We could have relaxed in these whimsical parks all day long.  But alas, we could not... it was onto Hilton Head Island!

(More vacation posts on the way!)