What a fun day yesterday! We started out by going to the visitor's center at an old town, Sandstone, which is about 4 miles from here. They gave us all the info on Sandstone Falls in 
the southern area of the New River Gorge National River park. Said we had to drive 8 miles south along the river, then 7.8 miles back up the other side of the New River. Dave got freaked out again because of the windy/twisty road going up over the mountain just to get south to a town called Hinton, then turning back up north - again a one lane road on the other side of the river. But, what a reward once we got there! Absolutely beautiful area. We spent about 2 hours piddling around there, walking out to as far as we could over the falls, watching people fish - then decided to drive back into Hinton and on to find the Graham Home which is the first settler's home in West Virginia. On the way we took pictures of people's campers - up on stilts obviously because of flooding. Separate email with more pics will show just how clever these people are in keeping up out of the flood waters. On the way there, we stopped at a roadside Dairy Queen - which was built on the side of the mountain, and the eating area was built out over the New River. Alot of people - I think this is a main attraction in Hinton. On our drive to Lowell which is where the Graham Home is, we stopped at a monument that honors John Henry - the man that beat the steel-driving hammer of the railroad fame but died from exhaustion afterward - google John 
Henry and read his story. Anyhow - when we stopped there was a car from Georgia - two women - Dave said he could take their picture if they wanted to while they stood infront of the statue. I think from that small act of kindness, they suggested that we follow them - they were going to the Great Bend Tunnel of John Henry's legend. We could see tracks running right into the mountain we were standing on, looking down, from below where we were at the statue. We followed them in our truck and suggested we get in their car with them after we had turned into CSX's property - they were going to drive to the tunnel - come along. They said their husbands were both employed by CSX and they are allowed on the property. Was spooky - could see a small light at the end of the mile-long tunnel - and was just blown away with the whole thing. Again, there are orbs showing up in pictures - but only show up when we were standing at the entrance. Separate email will show these pics. CSX has since built another tunnel beside this one, you can just barely make it out on the left - and CSX is in the process of making a visitor's center to honor John Henry. After leaving there, we continued on our road to find the Graham Home - found it but it had closed for the season. Today, Saturday, it's raining, will head into town later to do some shopping, but just lay low.
the southern area of the New River Gorge National River park. Said we had to drive 8 miles south along the river, then 7.8 miles back up the other side of the New River. Dave got freaked out again because of the windy/twisty road going up over the mountain just to get south to a town called Hinton, then turning back up north - again a one lane road on the other side of the river. But, what a reward once we got there! Absolutely beautiful area. We spent about 2 hours piddling around there, walking out to as far as we could over the falls, watching people fish - then decided to drive back into Hinton and on to find the Graham Home which is the first settler's home in West Virginia. On the way we took pictures of people's campers - up on stilts obviously because of flooding. Separate email with more pics will show just how clever these people are in keeping up out of the flood waters. On the way there, we stopped at a roadside Dairy Queen - which was built on the side of the mountain, and the eating area was built out over the New River. Alot of people - I think this is a main attraction in Hinton. On our drive to Lowell which is where the Graham Home is, we stopped at a monument that honors John Henry - the man that beat the steel-driving hammer of the railroad fame but died from exhaustion afterward - google John 
Henry and read his story. Anyhow - when we stopped there was a car from Georgia - two women - Dave said he could take their picture if they wanted to while they stood infront of the statue. I think from that small act of kindness, they suggested that we follow them - they were going to the Great Bend Tunnel of John Henry's legend. We could see tracks running right into the mountain we were standing on, looking down, from below where we were at the statue. We followed them in our truck and suggested we get in their car with them after we had turned into CSX's property - they were going to drive to the tunnel - come along. They said their husbands were both employed by CSX and they are allowed on the property. Was spooky - could see a small light at the end of the mile-long tunnel - and was just blown away with the whole thing. Again, there are orbs showing up in pictures - but only show up when we were standing at the entrance. Separate email will show these pics. CSX has since built another tunnel beside this one, you can just barely make it out on the left - and CSX is in the process of making a visitor's center to honor John Henry. After leaving there, we continued on our road to find the Graham Home - found it but it had closed for the season. Today, Saturday, it's raining, will head into town later to do some shopping, but just lay low.
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