A Visit to the Blue Ridge Mountains

Brandon Jackson, 1309 Emerald St. NE, the son of Kim and Theiel Jackson, drove to Shenandoah National Park in the Blue Ridge Mountains, near Luray, Va., yesterday morning with Mark Van DeWege, 1300 Emerald St. NE. Brandon spoke to Marc Borbely, 536 13th St. NE, after returning to Emerald Street. Brandon attends school at the Village Learning Center.

Where are you coming back from?

Wendy's. Because first what we did: we went to Shenandoah, and then we went to Wendy's. And when we were at Shenandoah, we looked at some sites first, and we looked on top of the hills, and we saw houses and stuff, and then we walked back to the car, and we saw the path that we were on, on top of the mountain, and he was telling me that he walked to the top of another mountain.

It was great — you know, it was fun.

Mr. Van DeWege: "He was expecting a little bit more hard-core mountain or rock-climbing with ropes and everything."

So it wasn't as hard as you thought it would be.

No. We just walked. I kind of tripped a couple of times.

Oh, because I guess it was in the woods, sort of, right? What did it look like? What did you see?

It was pretty scary, at first when I came up top, pretty scary.

Scary how come?

Because I looked down and I was like aaaa!!! and I was scared.

Because I guess you were really high up there?

Yeah.

Mr. Van DeWege: We were standing right on a big rock, looking over the valley.

Do you think you might go again sometime?

Yep.

That's cool. Thanks for talking, Brandon.

Okay. §