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#NatureWritingChallenge Topic: An underrated experience at a National Park, refuge or National Forest.  Check out the challenge here. (Note: Rules for this challenge include writing, unfiltered, on the topic for no more than one hour.  Please forgive typos and incomplete thoughts) After spending a couple of days in Charlottesville, VA (awesome!), we took a day to meander to visit my mom at her D.C. home.  We drew our route so that we could drive through Shenandoah National Park’s beautiful Skyline Drive.  To date, this has been one of the most underrated experiences in the parks that I have had. We drove the Skyline Drive as part of a week-long trip where Jason and I planned a route that took us through numerous National Park Units through the Virginias, D.C., Maryland and Pennsylvania.  My mom had recently started working for the federal government after returning from a couple of years of service…