Welcoming family home ideal for VATech visiting faculty & professionals!

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You are going to love being here! Enjoy living in a warm, welcoming & fully-furnished contemporary cedar, fieldstone & glass house that wraps you up in comfort. Experience stilled time surrounded by the wonderfully peaceful natural environment with incredibly beautiful views of surrounding mountains & the rolling valley below. Listen to the creek flowing & the birds singing and the breeze blowing. The sunsets down the valley & the brilliant once in a lifetime views of the stars in the night-sky are awe-inspiring. Experience fun outdoor adventures! You can hike anywhere on the land & there are spectacular views from every vantage point. Picnic on the meadows & explore the creeks & park-like woods. The Appalachian Trail adjoins our property with the Kelly Knob Trail hike right in our backyard. If you brave the initial steep half-mile, you are rewarded with a lovely rolling hike in woods capped off with a spectacular view of the New River Valley (in Winter). If you are feeling hearty you can start the hike without any driving straight from the farm house. My husband and I fell in love with this beautiful farmland property on our honeymoon! We were looking for a soul-touching place to make our home together near VATech. He was a new Assistant Professor in M.E. and I was a late-blooming student in University Honors/English. On that beautiful Spring day in April, 1969, we walked together up the mountain, sat on a big rock and looked down the valley at that incredible view - and knew in that moment, this was where we wanted to be. We rushed back into town to the realtor's office to immediately sign the papers. We lived in the depression-era house on the property for 19 years, all the time having fun remodeling - taking out walls, adding windows, building a fireplace. We were blessed with the birth of our two sons. We built our new family home, now Blackberry Morning Retreat, in 1988. Our family shared many wonderful years together in this sacred place! Please note that we have a couple living in the basement studio apartment. We like to have someone we trust living on the premises since this is our family home & it is very special to us! Tyla Belton & Anthony Rago, a lovely young couple, are both employed at VATech. The apartment has a separate outside entrance and they will be very respectful of your presence in the house and your right to privacy and a quiet and non-intrusive Retreat stay. But they will be happy to chat with you about the area or answer questions you might have or help you out in any way that they can while you're there. I have found Tyla & Anthony to be exceptional young people - mature, responsible, considerate and friendly. Their photo is among the Retreat photos.