Thanksgiving Break: Going

After traveling to B's parents' in Ohio last January and dealing with cold and snowy driving, we decided this year we'd make our holiday trip to Ohio in November, hoping to miss that. And we did. No snow. Yea.

B skipped his Tuesday night class and we left Tuesday morning around lunchtime. Because it's B... we of course picked up counties on the way**. 10 of them. (12 for Little Guy.) And we got a new highest point**: West Virginia's Spruce Knob (4,863 feet), the tallest mountain in the Alleghenies.


After winding up and around this mountain road past deer hunter after deer hunter, we finally made it to the top. And it was windy and COLD.


Here's the lookout tower.


Here we all are celebrating on top of the lookout tower. And freezing. And almost being blown off.


Since there was no clear marker for where the high point was, at least that we could find, we also took our celebratory pictures with the sign.

We listened to every Weezer album on our drive starting with the Blue Album and ending with Raditude. (We got to our hotel before we could listen to Hurley, and their two newest albums (released in November) are only on our cell phones). B gave them the behind the scenes info on the band (like how there is a big space between the Blue Album and Pinkerton because Rivers (the lead singer) had surgery to lengthen one of his legs).



We stopped for the night in Bridgeport, WV. Little Guy got to sleep on a chair.


*B keeps track of how many counties he's been to.
**And now we are trying to go to the highest point in each state.

The Drive Home

We left Ohio Sunday (January 10) morning around 11 AM.






Pictures taken from Interstate 68 in West Virginia out the car window. We were lucky, the drive was beautiful because all the trees were covered in snow, and none of the snow was on the road.


Brandonville, WV


Sunset as we were leaving Brandonville.

I got some better pictures of this sunset, but they are really blurry from the moving car and the dirty windows.

We saw a lot of deer on our drive... it turns out they are much easier to spot when the trees are bare and it's snowy.

West Virginia country side