And continues...............

This day ( Friday) finds us in the car most of the time. We left West Virginia and traveled through Ohio. We stopped at an aviation museum at Canton. Ohio where we had our own tour with a little guy who reminded me of Gramps (Ron's dad). We really enjoyed it. Many times in the tour Ron would look at me and say "I didn't know that!" So that was a learning adventure for him and of course I hardly knew anything so it was definately an education for me.

After that we drove up through the rest of Ohio and into Pennsylvania where we turned to drive parallel to the shore of Lake Erie. We stopped for the night in Erie, PA.
We are now headed to Buffalo, NY.

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Up this morning bright but not so early. Vacation mode has kicked in!

We finally have a destination in mind. We are headed to Niagra Falls so this morning we headed north through North Carolina, Virginia and into West Virginia. West Virginia is known as the mountain state and now I know why! The drive has been beautiful. Ron has enjoyed the "curvy roads", but they would be more fun in his mustang.

West Virginia is also know for its coal mining industry. We stopped in Beckley to tour an old coal mine. We rode down in a mine train car and got to experience a little of what the miners encountered. It is very claustrophobic and those men and their families had an extremely hard life.

We cruised on up highway 77 to Ripley where we will stay the night.

We didn't get in as much walking as we did yesterday so we put on our tennis shoes and made a few laps around the parking lot.

Tomorrow we will try to make it almost to Buffalo, NY because Ron has a lot of things we want to do there.

The trip continues.....

This morning we were up bright and early and headed to the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina. This is suppose to be the largest house in America and I believe it. It has over 30 bedrooms and 43 bathrooms. Wouldn't you hate to have to change the sheets and scrub the tubs! The house was magnificent. It is hard to believe that "real people" actually lived there. They also have magnificent gardens. We got our walk in for the day just walking through and around the grounds of this place.

After that we headed up the Blue Ridge Parkway for a couple of hours. The woods were filled with rhododendruns in bloom. The drive was breathtaking. We are staying the night in Boone, NC. We happened upon an outdoor theater production called The Horn of the West. It was put on by local people and college students. It was very well done and told the story of the struggles of early settlers.

Now... we are on the road again......

After a week with Ron at youth camp with the klids from our church and me with my wonderful aunts and cousins we are together again. I spent some really good quality time with my sweet aunts and cousins in Mississippi and Georgia. We shopped, ate, laughed, ate, talked and ate some more. It was really a special week. In the picture I am doing what I did alot - rocking on Aunt Evelyn's front porch.

Ron and I left this morning and headed north through the corner of South Carolina and into North Carolina. We visited two revolutionary war battle grounds - King's Mountain and Cowpens. We have stopped at Asheville, North Carolina for the night. We can see the Blue Ridge Mountains in the distance.

Tomorrow we will see the sights around here and then head up the Blue Ridge Parkway to points north.

On the road again......

We are excited as we begin this year's adventure. Ron will head to Florida with the youth from our church and I will travel to Mississippi and Georgia to visit aunts and cousins. We will meet up on July 4th to "explore" new places.