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Showing posts with label rivers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rivers. Show all posts

Monday, November 26, 2018

Travel notes

 A smog stayed along the highway until I got almost to Cincinnati, this was in Oragania, OH apparently.

About to cross the Little Miami River (so says the sign)

One of my favorite restaurants, but there's not one near me at home, so I stopped here for a favorite meal.  However, when using the rest room, I saw no toilet paper or towels had been installed, and I told myself, this is not a good sign.  I had to wait a long time to give my order, and the clerk shared that she is due to give birth in 4 days.  She said the restaurant is having some problems.  But the food was good.  How often do we think of what is going on in the lives of those who work to prepare our meals.


Yes, gas was amazingly low everywhere except North Carolina...where it's around $2.72 a gallon.  Forty three cents a gallon for traveling 500 miles makes a difference! Enough to buy several hamburgers.

PS, Black Mountain Ingles Gas is now wonderful 2.69 on Nov. 27!



Thursday, November 22, 2018

The fun of getting there

While on the road for 2 days, I was able to prop iPhone on the steering wheel, and sometimes actually get interesting photos.  I have done some cropping to remove the ever present dashboard at the bottom of the shots.


I began in North Carolina, then a bit of Tennessee, then Virginia, then West Virginia and finally Ohio.
 Most of my miles were in the mountains.

 A very big mountain ridge in front of me, I wondered how the road would get around it!


 Virginia had a tunnel through the mountain!  What a surprise!


There was another tunnel further on down the road as well.

I spent one night in West Virginia, because it's mostly mountains and was about to rain, and I'd been at it for 6 hours (stopping hourly to walk around or eat something.) The next morning the weather was still dropping rain, and there was talk of snow...but I never saw any.  And by the second hour on the road, the rain stopped.

 Most of the highways through mountains followed little rivers which had carved out these valleys over millennia.  It was like following the water either uphill or downhill, around many of the higher parts of the mountains where nobody lived except eagles.

 Coming close to Charleston, West Virginia there was suddenly a broad river!  It's the Kanawha!

 The WV capitol dome is visible from the interstate!

Did I make it to my family?  Let's talk tomorrow!

Thursday, February 12, 2015

Be the river...


Flat Creek, Montreat, NC


Quote for today:
I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.   John O'Donohue, "Fluent" from Connemara Blues

Sunday, March 3, 2013

White Sunday white water

Spring 2010 near Franklin and Highlands, NC


"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."  Emily Dickinson