On our way out of Hershey, we finally found the real chocolate factory. Unfortunately, it didn't seem possible to do a factory tour or even get very close to the factory, probably a good thing really given how much chocolate we had already eaten over the last couple of days.
We hit the road towards the Shenandoah National Park in Virginia where we had a camping reservation for the night.
This park is only 75 miles away from Washington DC and is a popular holiday destination for those who live and work in the city. It is a long thin park which protects the Blue Ridge Mountains and around 80,000 acres of wilderness.
We traveled along the Skyline Drive, a 105-mile road that runs the entire length of the park along the ridge of the mountains. There were so many pulls outs along this road, we weren't able to stop at them all but each one gave a breathtaking view of the park and beyond.
We were only passing through the park and given the number of times we had to pull out and take in the view, we quickly got behind schedule. This meant that we didn't have time to go on any of the 500 miles of walking trails in the park. Something to come back for!
We stayed in Big Meadows campground at mile marker 51 on the Skyline Drive. This was a big and very well equipped campsite with showers, laundry, camp store and lodges. It is one of those places you could easily spend a week and not feel like you were slumming it in field. We were unfortunately in the RV section as it was the only area we could pre-book which did mean we were subject to generator noises during the night. They are supposed to go off at 10pm but our neighbours' one kept coming on and off. The camp hosts were fantastic and spoke to the RV owners the next day to remind them of the rules, but next time we would try to get into the tent only section instead.
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