Road Trip
I went out of town for a long weekend this past weekend. My travels took me across the New River Gorge Bridge. I've been across a few times, but this time I decided to stop and enjoy a view of the bridge. It was about 5:30 in the evening, the air was visibly humid, my lens wasn't exactly clean, and the sun was in my face. But I snapped a photo anyway.
This is the second highest bridge in the US (876 feet) and the largest steel span bridge in the world. I didn't even know it existed until I drove across it because MapQuest said that was the best way to go.
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posted by Leslie @ 5:51 PM
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What a great picture. I love your blog, by the way. My family is from West Virginia, though I never lived there (my parents moved to Michigan before I was born). It's always been "Grandma's house" to me. Since "becoming an adult" I haven't been able to get there as often as I'd like (I haven't been there in 6 years) and I miss it - your photos help. Especially since I live in Utah now, and I really miss the color green.
I'm terribly jealous of you, of course :) You're living my dream - to run away from the rat race, and homestead in West Virginia.
Thanks for sharing your life.
That is just gorgeous!! What beautiful photos.
May I ask if West Virginians are friendly to tranplants? Or is like so many other areas where folks are as friendly as you are.
My hubby went down a few years ago to look at land and thought it was a beautiful state.
Me, Utah is beautiful in its own way (I've only ever seen photos, but still). I know what you mean about "Grandma's house" -- that's the way western NC and eastern TN are to me. I think that's why I like the hills of WV so much.
PlantainPatch, we thought we'd run into a lot of "oh, you're the folks that bought the old Jones' place" and "You're from away, aren't you?" Well, folks *do* ask us "Why did you move HERE?" and they're genuinely interested in what drew us from Atlanta to nowheresville. We've found West Virginians to be the salt of the earth. Generous to a fault, extremely knowledgeable and willing to share that knowledge, and always very warm and welcoming.
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