July 29th 2013
Yes it is true... West Virginia is Almost Heaven. Our drive to Clifftop and West Virginia's oldest park was a predictor of
scenes to come.
Following I-64 from Kentucky
was a scenic drive through roughly hewn mountains and rolling hills into the central
western reaches of West Virginia. A stop
at the welcome station was helpful for selecting roads as the state is known
for twisty, steep roadways through the mountainous coal mining regions of the
US.
As usual, there was some item we needed from the store and
today it was bread and milk. Noticing a
country corner market we stopped. The
market was at a cross-road and the top of a hill, it may have been Winona. A short chat with the shop owner ended with
her words, “Good luck.” I pondered her words as the road was quite curvy.
Across the road was an old coal mine Company Store and stopped
for a visit. Reading the literature it
was easy to understand how a miner soon “owed his soul to the company store”. Time to journey towards Babcock State Park.
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