"Almost Heaven........take me home, country roads" (Mae Hong Son: Mountains, Minorities, Rivers, Waterfalls, Valleys and Villages)
June 3rd 2011 "Almost Heaven, West Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River.........
...Country roads, take me home
To the place where I belong
West Virginia, Mountain Mama
Take me home, country roads"
And so this unforgettable refrain goes.
When I was around three years old, my parents thought it would be a good idea to move to Third Worldish West Virginia. (An American state where infant
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