Tuesday, September 19, 2006
More from West Virginia & moving south!
Sept 16-19...On Saturday we drove to Harmon, WV, which is in the north central part of the Monongahela National Forest. It is home to good friends of Dixie’s brother. We spent the night with them and enjoyed seeing the countryside. We road in a large 4 wheeler type of vehicle (actually a 6 wheel ‘Polaris Ranger‘) to the top of a mountain where they are building an A frame cabin. The view was incredible. We enjoyed our stay with them and some great West Virginia hospitality. We found that West Virginia is pretty much covered with Mountains/Hills and thick forest! On Monday we left WV and are now in Fancy Gap, Virginia (another very small town). It is right on the border of VA and NC. Today we are going into Mt. Airy, NC which is the home of Andy Griffith and the town that Mayberry was patterned after. More from there later. We leave here tomorrow and head to Gaffney, SC where we will be having some work done on the motor home at Freightliner.
Friday, September 15, 2006
The Hills of West Virginia
Sept 12 - 15... On the 13th we headed down the road into West Virigina. We are parked at an Army Corp of Engineer park on Burnsville Lake at Bulltown. We have a site right on the Lake! This area is very mountainous and thick forest. On our walk the first evening we saw several deer. They seem to be quite used to people as they tend to stand there and just observe, that is until you get too close. We ventured into Flatwoods and Sutton, two small towns in the area. Writing this blog from the Library as we have no internet service so no photos today. Our cell phone service is hit or miss - mostly miss! Today we road our bikes to the park entrance and hiked through the Bulltown Civil War site. We will be at this park until Monday then plan to stop for 2 nights in Fancy Gap, VA.
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