A few weeks ago we went on a short vacation, just to run away from home and look at unfamiliar scenery. One of our plans was to follow the Skyline Drive, which meanders down the top of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia.
There are lots of places to pull off and look down at the valley on either side of the mountains – farms, little towns here and there, and always forest.
Unfortunately, as we drove on the valley below filled with fog.
Then we had to crawl slowly through some road construction
and finally the fog climbed up the mountain and surrounded us. The whole point of the Skyline Drive is scenery, and we couldn’t see any. So we headed downhill at the first exit and went to Luray Caverns instead.
We were underneath the Shenandoah Valley instead of looking down on it from a mountaintop, but the view was a lot better.
A Number of Things 
Glad Luray Caverns worked for you :
fog in the mountains is a recipe for …
…can’t see the end of your sentence…must be the fog…
…neither can I…shudder to think what it might be…
Frustrating, but at least there was something else to view. Those caves look stunning.
Yes, the Skyline Drive part of the trip was disappointing – but “stunning” is exactly the word for Luray. It was a good day, on the whole.