5:30 wake up so we could say good bye to my sister before she left for work, and we were in the road at 6:30 just before sunrise. We drove east on famous Paris Pike thru beautiful horse farm country just as the sun came up. The town of Paris, Kentucky is as cute as it can be. Here is the Bourbon County Courthouse in Paris:
Then on to West Virginia. If John Denver is right and West Virginia is "almost heaven" then I fear there will be a lot of people who will be sorely disappointed when they show up at the pearly gates and heaven looks an awful lot like a run-down trailer park.
The western part of West Virginia on US 60 was as impoverished an area as we've seen.
After a quick stop for lunch we noticed Vanessa is still incontinent, although less so. We figured we were now carrying a big bottle of extra coolant in the van so we would just top her off periodically. Fingers crossed again.
On to Lewisburg, W.Va., by far the nicest town we have seen in this state.
From there we drove to White Sulphur Springs and The Greenbrier Resort. Absolutely first class.
We are spending the night in Staunton, Va. at the farm of good friend Joe Surratt who has three championship hunter horses (one is a grandson of Secretariat), two dogs, one cat, and lots of chickens. It's peaceful and gorgeous.
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