Here's my favorite shot from my rally explorations this year. This is milepost 8.5 on the Blue Ridge Parkway, Humpback Rocks Picnic Area. If you stop in, be sure to explore the rear picnic loop, really beautiful back there. I rode in via 64 which has a Sheetz just up from the entrance of the parkway, a great place to grab some gas for a straight parkway shot to Meadows of Dan and something to eat at the picnic area.
This year I made more of a point of exploring off-parkway. Lots of wonderful roads in the area, route 8 south from the parkway was a particularly exciting ride. Some joker at the VA DOT placed a 55 mph sign in the middle of a set of snaking S-curves as if to say 'I dare you to try this here' but I didn't take the bait.