Every dish you're sharing from Blue Atlas looks ridiculously delicious. And your friend Jackson is my kind of foodie friend- yes, get the whole menu.

WHAT? A Lauren Z Ray menu item? Sooo cool! I have to dig around your videos in case I can get to Richmond on weekend coming up!

My favorite bit in this video may be you jumping up onto Mr. Madison!

I have heard and read a lot about the crime rate being high and how uncomfortable and inconvenient it is? How would you rate it from your perspective

How is the crime rate in Richmond, Va?

Hey! My wife and I ran into you at Libby Hill Park the day you shot that footage. I knew you looked familiar when we stopped to say hello (and to admire your sweater), but I didn’t connect the dots until a few minutes later, but by then you were gone. Libby Hill Park is one of my favorite parks in Richmond. Beautiful park with fantastic views.

That's a fun area. Conservative and respectable. Nice nature. Good school. I'm surprised you're yet to outgrow the vegan phase.

JMU Duuuukkess! 📣

9:57 cold days in the winter but little to no snow!

My college town <3

I travel internationally for work and the airport is a major deal breaker for me. The airport was an international airport before 9/11. After 9/11 the richmond airport was too small to implement all the new TSA infrastructure so it's not really an international airport. (they let private jets do international flights not commercial flights). I can't fly internationally anywhere without a connection in Boston which requires me to go through security twice on the same day. Or drive two hours to Dulles and pay to park my vehicle. (no easy mass transit option from richmond to dulles).

well it looks ok. but pretty borring

Hello Lauren and Lucas , just getting back from Fredericksburg visting some friends. Caught your video. As always, a great vibe. You do wonderful work , showcasing the best of our wonderful state. We have never been to Harrisonburg, but after seeing the video, Harriet and I are going. Got a question for you? Are there walking tours of the University and town? Sounds like you had a fun time with your friends. What was your favorite drink on the tour ? Sending you much love💚🌲 Jim, Harriet and Yuki

James Madison was known to have a great sense of humor. I bet he gets a kick out of the photo ops❣ Harrisonburg sits in a very beautiful area of VA😊

JMU was one of the colleges I applied to, but ended up going elsewhere. So cool to see the town and the campus and wonder what might’ve been, haha. Thanks for sharing your trip!

Thanks for this video - it brings back fond memories. I was in the class of '71 at Madison College! I lived in a brand new dorm down the hill and across the railroad tracks. We would walk to downtown - quite a hike. The lifestyle was quite conservative at that time. One of the dorms up the hill had a large parlor where the Dean of Women could entertain. This story was told to me: The electricity kept going out in the dorm. I guess it depended on how many irons, hairdryers, etc. were going at the same time. The girls finally got so fed up they decided to organize. The next time the Dean planned a social, all the girls plugged in everything they could find at the same time in order to blow a fuse. That was embarrassing to the Dean of Women while hosting an event, so the problem finally got fixed. A bus was chartered for holidays to take students to Richmond, so that saved those parents the trouble of coming to get their children. For other week-end trips, one girl would charter a taxi and post signs for a ride to Richmond. Seven girls could fit into one taxi, so the price was really cheap, even for a student who may have very little spending money. The bus and taxis would drop us off at Willow Lawn on Friday night and pick us up there on Sunday evening. The interstate highways had recently been completed - both 64 and 81, so it was a straight shot back and forth. Sometimes if the taxi came out of Elkton, they would take Rt. 33. These trips usually ended up being at night, so we could never see Fall leaves or snow on the mountainside. One of my brothers suggested I go to Madison in the first place, and some relatives had gone there before, as we have family connections in the Valley. My younger sister followed me a couple of years later. I met a former Madison student from Waynesboro through some friends, and I thought she would make the perfect wife for my brother. Long story short, they are still married and live in the Valley now. The second best part of Madison was the Library! I loved the home and garden magazines. The best part was relatives picking us up and taking us to their homes for the week-end. My aunts or cousin's wife would come to Harrisonburg for errands and take me or both of us to their homes in Broadway or Timberville. We would go all around with them and participate in whatever was going on for the day. Aunt Elizabeth in Broadway played the piano or organ at one church on Sunday morning and then we would quickly drive to another church and she would play again. One time we picked up her stack of clothes which she had paid a woman to iron. The family had an antique steam tractor and it was still being used, like we were in a time warp. The barbequed chicken at an event at the Bridgewater Home was out of this world! We would drive down Route 42 past the Lincoln Homestead where the family had lived and farmed, which was vacant for many years but has recently been renovated. At the other Uncle's farm, our ancestral home, we would watch the eggs moving down the conveyor belt to be "candled" under a special light. My cousin's wife would throw out the bad eggs. It was the childrens' job to gather the eggs for the business. One time I went with them to deliver eggs to a restaurant in New Market. Poultry has been a very big business in this area. I attended some baby's christening at the church. I slept in an antique bed with an elaborately carved tall headboard and footboard, and set my things on the marble top dresser and wash stand. In the closet hung another cousin's exquisite wedding gown which she, a Madison alumni, had made as a graduate student in a university up north. She became a textile professor and made multiple trips to Turkey to study textiles and wrote several books with gorgeous pictures. She said the textile professor at Madison inspired her to pursue that career because the professor was so lousy. I had the same textiles professor at Madison, and she left much to be desired. Across the road was the old mill with the water wheel constantly turning, which an ancestor had built many years ago, and beside the house was the mill pond. Behind that was the family garden which my cousin's wife tended. She grew rhubarb, among the other usual things. Behind the garden was the walk to the barn with the old outbuildings alongside. My cousin managed the farm for his parents who lived in the wash house now. I would watch the egg market report with them on the nightly news. There was only one TV channel in Harrisonburg -- there were 3 channels in Richmond. I went with the cousins in the truck to the back field where he gave the cattle shots for some reason. From the kitchen window of the big house we could clearly see the New Market Gap in the distant mountains, because the fertile fields in this neighborhood were under cultivation and open. .

So glad you visited Harrisonburg. My daughter just started attending JMU and I’m slowly learning the ins and outs of the area!

Holy cow! My husband and I stumbled across the heritage market years ago and I couldn’t remember what it was called or where exactly it was. It was such a random cool spot and I have been wanting to go back, but couldn’t find it again!

Harrisonburg really is the friendly city! Everyone was so nice. 😀

Has anyone been to Harrisonburg before?! 😍👇

I have never been, either. Thanks for this great video.

Get the bull ring out of your nose! It looks terrible!

It’s funny how white people feel comfortable with moving into cities that have extremely high crime rates but everyone else moves out. Richmond VA - Brooklyn NY - Compton CA- Memphis TN etc.

Great video, thank you!

How about Charlottesville VA? I am thinking about retiring to Charlottesville as a college town with a medical college. Close to Yogaville.

Watching the vlogtobers all over again! They were so fun the first time and even better the second time! It’s the caffeine-free pick me up each day…Pure joy watching them through the fall season. Tried the Waterloo spiced apple water and it was soooo good. Great recommendations too! 🫶💖🍁

moving there next year, can't wait

YES on pickles

I watch your stuff because 1) you’re both a fantastic presence on screen but also 2) you actually do your research You know I contacted you after Tom and I ran across your first CW video and it was so legit. Again: the research. I trust your information.

Yea! And CW’s Grand Illumination as part of it.

You could do July as the heart of summer and all the Independence Day stuff

Well done! And now you can start eating regularly.

I love that you have actual RECORDS!

I enjoy vegan burgers I try to live vegan food, but I struggled with water and now

We love our coffee! I always get iced at Starbucks! Thank you for showing three ships !

My wife and I and our 2 girls have been going to Myrtle beach for years! I mentioned to my we should try a new beach! I mentioned Virginia Beach for next year! We’re done Disney plenty of times! But it’s gotten very expensive! Is there plenty of of stores and restaurants? Plus is there Starbucks there?? Thank you for showing us your amazing vedio !

I love watching your videos! I have lived in Henrico County for 20 years. I have not heard of most of the places you visit. I am making a list of places to go! Thank you!

I love Hollywood Cemetery. That place is amazing. You should do a video just covering that place. 😊 lol

I go there for concerts. Been to The Fallout, Canal Club and The National. There is another venue that I have been to but forgot the name.

What is the cleanest hotel?

Great choices for leaf peeping Lauren. I don't know if Lewis Ginter Gardens qualifies. We love going there as we are members. Maymount is another. Hope you doing ok. Sending lots of love and affection 🍁🥬🍂♥ from Jim and Harriet ♥

LOVE the sweater!!!!!

Waiting for Vlogmas!💚🍁😍 @LaurenZRay @musicbyLUKAS

Maymount Park is my favorite RVA spot for fall foliage

Erin and I watch Only Murders. We have seen the finale. The most recent season is a little overfull with people and events but still very enjoyable.

Very nice❣ I'm in the Western NC area and the colors were dull this year - too much rain.

Richmond is too good in the fall...🍂

Who else loves the Fall?!🍁🍂👇

If you want another Poe location in Richmond if you haven't been is the Monumental Church. Poe would have gone there with his foster parents, the Allans, in pew number 80

I’m in Henrico close to Richmond but I haven’t done these things lol there are decent food places but I haven’t done been eating carnivore for a while now so it can be a bit challenging to find stuff with no carbs or sugar…