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Post by aquaduct on Sept 1, 2015 23:14:21 GMT -5
We've recently moved into a new house in Strasburg, VA. My wife found this cool drone video of the town's main street. The drone goes east then west and then east again. When it's flying east you can see Signal Knob rising past the edge of town. The north fork of the Shenandoah river flows around the base of the mountain. This is in the Shenandoah Valley about 70 miles west of DC. Things here date to the early 1700's when the area was the western frontier and George Washington was making a career as a young surveyor for Lord Fairfax and as a military officer defending the British Empire from indians and the French. A very cool little community of 6200 souls. And this is a close up picture of Signal Knob taken from the deck of our new house as the moon rose one recent summer evening.  Man, I love this place. |
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Post by RickW on Sept 1, 2015 23:30:32 GMT -5
Really nice looking little town. Is it near to work?
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Post by jdd2 on Sept 2, 2015 3:45:43 GMT -5
Whew!
For a second there I thought you were going to say that you'd moved to Peoria.
Congrats on the non-Peoria alternative!!
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Post by brucemacneill on Sept 2, 2015 5:37:56 GMT -5
Looks like a nice area, Pete. Like Rick though I'm wondering about the commute to D.C. You both work in D.C., right?
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Post by theevan on Sept 2, 2015 7:08:20 GMT -5
Looks to be a right beautiful place. The tune Shenendoah is lilting inside my cranium this morning
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Post by coachdoc on Sept 2, 2015 8:06:33 GMT -5
Congrats and enjoy. 70 miles from D.C. is almost enough.  |
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Post by aquaduct on Sept 2, 2015 8:14:08 GMT -5
Looks like a nice area, Pete. Like Rick though I'm wondering about the commute to D.C. You both work in D.C., right? We've been here in the greater Winchester Metropolitan Area (although at 25,000 people Winchester hardly qualifies as a big city) since 1998. Interstate 66, which originates in Strasburg when it meets Interstate 81 running north and south, runs east through Washington, DC and is the major commuter road into DC. Winchester/Strasburg/Front Royal is a bedroom community for the Federal government (beautiful, affordable, and outside the blast zone makes it highly attractive). We've both spent time commuting into the worst traffic in the country- Christal spent a number of years going into the northern VA suburbs and I've commuted to the Swedish Embassy building down on the Georgetown Waterfront (K street) as well as across town to the Navy Yard (yes, the Navy Yard that has the occasional nutcase shooting the place up) area but we don't anymore. Christal has a career with the DOD in Winchester and I've worked largely from home for the last 2 years, these days only coming out to Peoria one or 2 times a month (and yes, I've been asked to relocate. Not a chance). |
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Post by aquaduct on Sept 2, 2015 8:15:45 GMT -5
Congrats and enjoy. 70 miles from D.C. is almost enough. I read about the big wind storms out west earlier in the week. I was going to say we get that here damn near every day. |
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Post by brucemacneill on Sept 2, 2015 9:11:45 GMT -5
Looks like a nice area, Pete. Like Rick though I'm wondering about the commute to D.C. You both work in D.C., right? We've been here in the greater Winchester Metropolitan Area (although at 25,000 people Winchester hardly qualifies as a big city) since 1998. Interstate 66, which originates in Strasburg when it meets Interstate 81 running north and south, runs east through Washington, DC and is the major commuter road into DC. Winchester/Strasburg/Front Royal is a bedroom community for the Federal government (beautiful, affordable, and outside the blast zone makes it highly attractive). We've both spent time commuting into the worst traffic in the country- Christal spent a number of years going into the northern VA suburbs and I've commuted to the Swedish Embassy building down on the Georgetown Waterfront (K street) as well as across town to the Navy Yard (yes, the Navy Yard that has the occasional nutcase shooting the place up) area but we don't anymore. Christal has a career with the DOD in Winchester and I've worked largely from home for the last 2 years, these days only coming out to Peoria one or 2 times a month (and yes, I've been asked to relocate. Not a chance). That makes sense then. I thought you were both working "In" D.C. Also, I was mistaking Strasburg for Stanton, farther south on 81, but I just looked at the map. Enjoy your new digs. |
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Post by aquaduct on Sept 2, 2015 9:39:20 GMT -5
That makes sense then. I thought you were both working "In" D.C. Also, I was mistaking Strasburg for Stanton, farther south on 81, but I just looked at the map. Enjoy your new digs. <Staunton>. Home of Huss and Dalton. |
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Post by Dub on Sept 2, 2015 10:19:59 GMT -5
Lovely spot, Peter. Thanks for the video and photo.
The only time I've been around there as an adult was attending Carlton Haney's bluegrass festival at Watermelon Park near Berryville ca. 1973 or '74. The Shenandoah Valley is such a beautiful place. I need to get back there again.
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Post by TKennedy on Sept 2, 2015 10:37:32 GMT -5
A tidy perfect place on the outside but what dark secrets does it hold?
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Post by Marshall on Sept 2, 2015 10:48:13 GMT -5
Nice music on the video. You change houses more often than I do underwear. Enjoy the new digs. (Even though it's in a Police State with drone surveillance). |
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Post by aquaduct on Sept 2, 2015 12:22:47 GMT -5
A tidy perfect place on the outside but what dark secrets does it hold? There's a place down in the middle of town that will still pump your gas for you. Creepy I tell you. |
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Post by Chesapeake on Sept 2, 2015 12:24:32 GMT -5
Nice vid - some nice picking on it too. Speaking of Staunton, if you've been to Huss and Dalton you've probably also visited this little gem. It's quite a place. Really brings home the rigid social and economic stratification in Europe that drove so many to cross the ocean to reach the land of opportunity. In 18th-century Europe, the niche you were born into was pretty much the one you died in. America changed that equation for so many. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2015 12:56:39 GMT -5
Peter have you checked out Frets and Friends yet?
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Post by aquaduct on Sept 2, 2015 13:42:09 GMT -5
Peter have you checked out Frets and Friends yet? I've driven past it a few times but haven't stopped in. Do you know them? |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2015 14:32:01 GMT -5
I always check out the local shops via Goggle maps when anybody moves to a new town.
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Post by david on Sept 2, 2015 14:32:44 GMT -5
Peter, what a nice town! And no litter or homeless people showing! I like the video, but wonder why cars need to stop 3 to 4 car lengths from the intersection at red lights (50 seconds into video). Is it for really, really slow pedestrians or really, really long trucks turning corners?
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Post by aquaduct on Sept 2, 2015 15:05:54 GMT -5
Peter, what a nice town! And no litter or homeless people showing! I like the video, but wonder why cars need to stop 3 to 4 car lengths from the intersection at red lights (50 seconds into video). Is it for really, really slow pedestrians or really, really long trucks turning corners? It's actually the trucks. That's route 11 which predates (I mean way back before pavement) interstate 81 and runs parallel to it along with running through the middle of all the little towns along the way. It's still a fairly heavily travelled semi route and they roll through the middle of town. Got to give them a fair amount of room to get around some of those narrow right angle corners. |
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