This will be the last post until December when we take off to Texas for the winter. I'll alert you when I am posting to it again. A couple of observations and notes from this trip.
West Virginia is all that John Denver sang - "Almost Heaven, West Virginia." It is wild, beautiful, very rugged, a truly outdoor person's haven. Very poor towns but very friendly people. We both liked WV - again I think because of less people. Virginia: We were about 50 miles away from Washington DC the whole time in Virginia, and just too loud, noisy, too many people and cars/traffic. People weren't as friendly. We felt uneasy at times - they have not forgotten the Civil War - they are so proud that they were Confederates. However, the Shenandoah Valley and National Park - breath taking. Pennsylvania - the area we saw was lovely, had lots of Amish, tremendous history lessons. Glad we went to the places we did - we both learned alot from this trip of early American history and how the expansion to the west happened.
I am an avid reader - and the last book I read (finished yesterday) was so deja vue! It was set in Virginia/West Virginia about 1750 and was the life of a woman who was abducted by the Shawnee Indians and managed to escape and find her way back home. This is a true story, and was written from journals and personal accounts/oral histories from the family. Mentions George Washington, General Braddock, the New River, the Shenandoah valley. Wow. Didn't have a clue this was all in it when I got the book. I was blown away when we were traveling west today out of the campground and the New River Gorge area, and went over a bridge that said it is in honor of this woman! See you in December!
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