http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/West-Virginia/Fayetteville/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from North America , United States , West Virginia , Fayetteville en-us Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:18:18 UTC Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:18:18 UTC getting cold here. and run out time. but so fun climbing. so many good routs. I love to climb more here. I want to back in here again. http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/West-Virginia/Fayetteville/blog-338731.html Hawks Nest State Park is the West Virgniarsquos version of visiting the New River Gorge without the assistance of the National Park Service. Set amidst an inn and banquet facility that more resembles a stark and cubic university administration building the restaurant overlooks the gorge and a tramway that shuttles visitors to the river below for jetboat tours on the New River. Between the sta http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/West-Virginia/Fayetteville/blog-238546.html West Virginians are an affable and approachable bunch. So coming from grumpy and aloof New England I needed time to make the adjustment. However informal they are in appearance the hospitality more than compensates. The mountain twang of their accent leaves me on the verge of letting out a violent chuckle. Conversations are prolonged and many have taken in genuine interest in me and my vis http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/West-Virginia/Fayetteville/blog-238545.html I booked four nights at a rustic mountain cottage the New River. Doug and Sally have not been managing the facility for a year yet. As I pulled up off the single lane road and past the red barn mailbox two dogs close to a Golden Retriever and an indescribable mutt of easily a dozen breeds raced at me from behind a barn both barking sternly. Naturally my first reaction was to dive back in http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/West-Virginia/Fayetteville/blog-238542.html West Virginia is a place apart mildly forgotten as it is lodged between more noticeable states Ohio Pennsylvania and Virginia. West Virginia has already established its own unpolished identity no longer interested in being just the western version of its eastern and more refined counterpart by the same name. Only a full dayrsquos drive from New England it is a state comfortable with its http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/West-Virginia/Fayetteville/blog-237737.html Unfortunately we were off to a late start from Pennsylvania. When we got to our hotel the night before my trunk refused to open. I had forgotten to tell R that my car key doesn't open the trunk door and that she needed to pop the trunk instead. When she tried to use the key something got stuck and my trunk door wouldn't open with our suitcases inside. Luckily my back seats pull forward an http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/West-Virginia/Fayetteville/blog-177034.html