I'm way behind schedule this morning because I had to break my regular weekday routine to do someone else's job for them. Don't you just love it when that happens? Anyway, as I mentioned last week, a little over a week ago 
It was a shorter walk than we took on Saturday morning, but it took us near some old buildings around the area. I would guess given the part of the country Radford is in, there is a lot of history in some of these buildings. You might not be able to see it really well in that first photo, but I was trying to capture the old stone building down the road a bit. Actually, given how images have been working on HIVE lately, I'll be lucky if you are even able to see what I am talking about!
They only had one game on Friday and it was an early afternoon game, so we took advantage of that to make a little run to the next town over called Christiansburg. Radford is pretty small, so if you want more shopping options and different places to eat, you have to hop over to Christiansburg or one of the other bigger towns in the area.
After we made a quick stop at a chain store called TJMaxx so our niece could find a dress for a banquet she had coming up, we found a used book store that
Old New River Books is located in a small town called Cambria, Virginia and it sits in an old building next to the Cambria Train Station. They had a ton of old books. Probably a lot of stuff that no one would ever care about, but you never know.
I did notice a couple things that stuck out at me and I felt it would be a good idea to take a photo of them. Mainly the old paperback novels that they had on one of the racks. I've never heard of the book "Jungle She" but it seems enthralling, am I right?
Second, the archway that they decorated with old books was pretty cool too. I actually just stood looking at it for a while trying to understand the engineering of it all. Since there doesn't seem to be a lot of tension from the outside arches, I am guessing a lot of adhesive was involved, especially for those books across the top of the arch.
We found a local brew pup in the area called Bull and Bones that we decided to check out for dinner. It was kind of funny because although it was a brew pub, they only had one of their own beers on tap. They were hosting a "tap takeover", so they didn't have much of their own brew for us to choose from. Instead, I got this nice brown ale from another brewer, and my wife got a mango wheat beer that she really enjoyed.
We got some deep fried pickles to start off, but we had already half finished them before I realized I needed to get a photo.
I got chicken wings as my entree and although they were good, I don't think they were any better than the ones I have been making myself at home lately on the Weber Kettle grill. They were nice and meaty although they might look small in the photo above and they had decent flavor.
Our niece got the burger which she seemed to enjoy, and
After dinner, we dropped our niece off at her dorm to get some laundry done, then a bit later in the evening she called up so her and I could go get shakes from Cook Out. We took them back to the hotel and sat in our room and watched some of the NCAA basketball tournament before I drove her back to her dorm.
To be fair, she could have easily walked, it's not that far, but being the overprotective aunt and uncle we are, we felt better driving her over. As I took her back, the frat and sorority houses were alive with all kinds of shenanigans, and the local police had several people pulled over doing sobriety checks.
Ah, life in a college town!
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