It's a Slow News Day

Slow because we just traveled from one campsite to the next with no planned genealogy/history/tourist attraction on the way.  It rained most of the night and the thunder and lightning were fantastic!  First time since I've owned WindDancer that there has been a storm.  It was still raining this morning, so did not leave the campsite until nearly noon.

There was nothing planned, but I found something along the way to investigate anyway.  There is a town called Saltville, Virginia, and it's fame is reflected in it's name.  It is a major salt-producing town.  There were two Civil War battles there - who knew?  The battles were over control of the salt source.  Confederates won one battle, Federals the other.  There is a museum housing the history of the town plus a lot of dinosaur fossils that have been excavated from the surrounding area.  The museum is run by a lovely lady who filled me full of local history (General J.E.B. Stuart's wife made her home in Saltville after old J.E.B. died in the Civil War) and sent me off with a complimentary sample of salt, which she claims is 99% sodium chloride, no additives.  I will not be sharing it with one of my children who already uses too much salt.