This is about the finest example of a recycled gas station I have seen in all my years of searching them out in my travels.
Kitchen Cabinets and Design, Abingdon, VA.
It’s on a nice corner on Main Street in Abingdon, VA. I stayed there two nights on my way back from Connecticut last week because I had a couple of on-line meetings to attend and needed a good wifi signal.
The motel I stayed at offered a second picture-perfect moment on my first evening there. I was sitting outside with a couple newly-made acquaintances. Amid bursts of sunshine it was raining off and on, but we were sheltered by the roof overhang.
All of a sudden there was a huge, brilliant rainbow above the valley below us, stretching across the horizon. It was so big that I couldn’t get the whole the thing in the frame. I even tried with the Iphone held horizontally (no, I don’t know how to do panoramic photos). There were two of them, but the second was invisible to the naked eye and I saw it only when I enlarged the photo on my computer.
The rainbow faded and a half-hour later another one formed in the same spot, accompanied again by a second one, more visible this time.
So, while the rainbow viewing was perfect, the photos are not. Sorry. Hope you enjoyed the gas station.
This is the first rainbow we saw. The faint one above it was not visible to the naked eye.
This is the second one. It’s cousin was more visible to us this time.
The unpretentious Alpine Motel in Abingdon was a good choice. The location atop a hill overlooking a valley and distant mountains was a perfect place to chill out.
The Urge to be Someplace Else 
Hi Ron,
You sound a little disoriented migrating SOUTH in June. 🙂
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It’s complicated.
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How’d you get home from Abingdon? Thru Asheville? That was a very bright rainbow! Good to see the boat on the car. The weather’s been miserable for the last week but if we get more days like this I’m going to play hooky from nursing and paddle. Alice is recovering pretty well.
Leslie
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So it’s about time you spent a summer with the rest of us here in Florida, and again experience the summertime heat and humidity! These last several days, Cristobal has given us a truly high-end dose of rainfall and thick, really-muggy air.
In those brief periods when the clouds part and the sun pops out, it’s maybe the best outdoor sauna ever. I ask again…How the f____ did anyone live in the southeast without air conditioning?
Brother Roger
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And have to say…The new van is looking really sweet!
Roger
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