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Published: August 13th 2013
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Kentucky Horse Farm
outside of Lexington, KY 13 August, 2013
Here are the highlights on the 5 states we passed through since my last blog entry.
VERMONT We drove across the southern part of Vermont on Hwy 9 from Brattleboro to Bennington. There was a lot of traffic, mostly out of state license tags, just a very few from Vermont. Wilmington, about halfway across, was so pretty with flowers everywhere. Lots of flowerbeds, hanging baskets and window boxes full of flowers. Even the Welcome to Wilmington signs had flower boxes. Vermont and New Hampshire are such beautiful states.
NEW YORK We drove to Troy then south to Albany. There was a lot of traffic heading south toward that Big City we prefer to avoid. Unlike in Vermont, most of the cars had New York tags. We drove from Albany to Binghamton, then into PA.
PENNSYLVANIA Pennsylvania’s highways are really rough, and their signage stinks. I’m beginning to think there is a problem with inbreeding in their road departments. They don’t warn you when there is a lane closure until you are ½ mile from said closure. By then the traffic is already backed up. We stopped at one rest area whose bathrooms were
closed, but they didn’t let you know that until you parked and walked up to the door. We stayed the night at Locust Lake State Park near Barnesville, PA, a very nice park and campground.
MARYLAND We drove south to Hagerstown on I-81, then west on I-70 to I-68. The road became hillier the farther west we came. At Sideling Hill, near Hancock, MD, 10 million tons of rock was cut out of the hill for the interstate to pass through. The rock was then crushed and used to make the road bed. The blasting took 16 months to complete. The cut reveals a 350 million year old section of rock which was folded by a massive compression of the earth’s crust some 245 million years ago.
WEST VIRGINIA The uphill climbs got longer and the downhills faster as we climbed over the Allegheny Mountains. Morgantown is definitely Mountaineer country, home of West Virginia University. There we turned south toward the center of the state, with beautiful views all around. We camped for the night at Burnsville Lake/Riffle Run Campground, an Army Corps of Engineers parks. It was quiet and serene, and a popular fishing spot. This morning
Locust Lake
Barnesville, PA we drove through Charleston, across the Kanawha River (several times) and then through Huntington into Kentucky.
KENTUCKY I know, I know, Kentucky makes 6 states, but we haven’t passed all the way through yet. We missed our turn in Lexington (no road signs for the road we wanted) and drove right through the center of the city. The traffic wasn’t as bad as we feared and we passed several universities, including that Wildcat one. Around Lexington are the horse farms and on the western edge is the Keeneland Race Track. We are stopped for the night at Elizabethtown, only about 230 miles from home.
Tomorrow we get hugs and kisses from our little people and the big people, too.
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Larry & Pat Fisher
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Great Trip!
This was a very enjoyable trip. We followed you all the way.