Found your blog from your comment on "Fragments From Floyd". I lived most of my life in Sunset Beach in St. Petersburg. My wife and I moved to the mountains from Baltimore in July of this year. You are right about the area around Floyd "blooming". We looked for a place there and could not find anything we liked in our price range. God led us to a less discovered area on Groundhog Mountain which is about 20 miles down the parkway from route 8. I would recommend this area in SW Virginia to anyone especially to escape what has happened to my beautiful Gulf coast.
Oh yeah, your bottle of wine episode brought back some memories particulrly of trying to pick up a few beers before Sunday football!
Dave