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Fleeing Sandy & Entering The World's Biggest Cave
... Maryland panhandle and then down the middle of West Virginia. One downside to fleeing in such a hurry was that we didn't get to see much of West Virginia, except for the interstate. I was hoping for some Deliverance moments, or at least to see some "hillbillies". But nah. Just a lot of stunning mountainous landscape.
After two uneventful nights (for us at least) in the motel, we decided it was safe enough to move on. We didn't have a plan, but our goal was ...
First stop. Sleep time. Yay
... most diverse deciduous forest in the World, only second in species diversity to the deciduous forest in China found at approximately the same Latitude. A deciduous forest has strong seasonal variation because of the loss of leaves in the winter time.
Our ride into the mountains was full of power outages and thunderstorms. The storm that Amethyst Lane seemed safe from had left much of West Virgina without power.
As we drove the ...
Beech Fork State Park (by Emma)
... flowers to put in a cup with water. While I was doing this, Madison caught the exact same fish that she caught before! It was starting to get cold, so we went inside and ate dinner. We then made a campfire and ate smores!
After that we took a shower in the RV and went to bed. I had a good first day in West Virginia.
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Men vs. Food
I wish I could give a clear explanation about how we ended up devouring over 3 lbs of hot dog each... Basically Chad was driving most of the way I was toying around with my Droid (Words with friends, f-book, etc...) We hadn't eaten a real complete breakfast and the conversation turned to food challenges. Presumably I googled the locations of the 58 Man ...
Layover Before Terra Alta, WV
... He asked me a bunch of questions about where we just were and where we were before that and where we were headed to. He also asked how long we had been out traveling for and for our insurance card. I figured that he was quizzing me to compare the answers to Jared's and he was. When Jared finally got back in the car all was fine. Apparently our Steelers license plate holder was covering up half of Pennsylvania so he couldn't tell which state our license ...