alan0614
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If you hate trees and stunning scenery, don‘t go to West Virginia. What a beautiful place. We live in western NC and started the trip through Boone into western WV Picnic lunch at Pinnacle Rock. We bought a Ecoflow battery and Setpower cooler, both worked flawlessly. Woohoo, no more ice.
From there we made it to Beckley for a coal mine tour and a bridge walk under the New River Gorge bridge. 851 ft above the river on a two foot wide platform.
The next day we toured the bunker at The Greenbrier Hotel. It was built to house Congress during the Cold War, 1962-1992. No cameras allowed, tours available but still classified. https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/greenbrier-bunker. The work that went into the ability to house 1,100 indefinitely (Congress and support crew) is amazing. The closest city is Lewisburg, population under 4,000. It has an airport with a 7,000 ft runway. All to support moving DC to WV.
On to Sharpsburg, MD and the Antietam Battlefield. The bloodiest day on US soil. On the morning of 9/17/1862 132,000 men began a battle that left 22,717 dead, wounded or missing. It was pretty moving to look over the cornfields it was fought in and try to imagine the carnage. The National Park Service has it agriculturally restored to how it looked during the battle.
Next up was Harper”s Ferry, back in WV. Another important town in Civil War history. Harper‘s Ferry sits at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers.
And down the Skyline Drive, have to throw in some wildlife
The last things on the trip were a visit to the Wood Brothers Racing museum. True legends in the early days of Nascar. And a stop in Mt. Airy for lunch, home of Andy Griffith.
Almost 1,200 miles and 19.7 mpg. Not too shabby when most of it was on 2 lane mountain roads.
From there we made it to Beckley for a coal mine tour and a bridge walk under the New River Gorge bridge. 851 ft above the river on a two foot wide platform.
The next day we toured the bunker at The Greenbrier Hotel. It was built to house Congress during the Cold War, 1962-1992. No cameras allowed, tours available but still classified. https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/greenbrier-bunker. The work that went into the ability to house 1,100 indefinitely (Congress and support crew) is amazing. The closest city is Lewisburg, population under 4,000. It has an airport with a 7,000 ft runway. All to support moving DC to WV.
On to Sharpsburg, MD and the Antietam Battlefield. The bloodiest day on US soil. On the morning of 9/17/1862 132,000 men began a battle that left 22,717 dead, wounded or missing. It was pretty moving to look over the cornfields it was fought in and try to imagine the carnage. The National Park Service has it agriculturally restored to how it looked during the battle.
Next up was Harper”s Ferry, back in WV. Another important town in Civil War history. Harper‘s Ferry sits at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers.
And down the Skyline Drive, have to throw in some wildlife
The last things on the trip were a visit to the Wood Brothers Racing museum. True legends in the early days of Nascar. And a stop in Mt. Airy for lunch, home of Andy Griffith.
Almost 1,200 miles and 19.7 mpg. Not too shabby when most of it was on 2 lane mountain roads.
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