A WHIRLWIND OF STATES

After staying in Maybrook, New York for 34 hours to reset Craig's driving hours, we headed out Saturday morning towards Vonore, Tennessee. In a little over five hours we had driven through New York, New Jersey, Maryland, West Virginia, and Virginia. WHEW..... as Craig said you can't even drive through five counties in California in that amount of time.

The one thing that stood out to me, and maybe it was that the fifth anniversary of 9/11 had just passed, but every single over crossing in New York had an American flag on it.

We were only about 28 miles from New York City when we changed freeways and traveled into New Jersey. Both Craig and I never imagined New York or New Jersey to look like they did. We expected a very urban and industrial look, but instead it was green with lots of open land which had a real country feel to it.

We came upon some road construction in West Virginia. You can tell from this picture that traffic was not moving too fast. Check out our speed, certainly were not breaking any laws here.

The nice thing about going so slowly was being able to check out the scenery. I saw this farm and old stone house and just knew there had to be some history to it. All along the roadways you could sense that history was made all around you.


We really do see some interesting things on the road. Most towns all have water towers with the name of the town on the sides, but the water tower in Mt. Jackson, Virginia was very unique. No mention of the town name, but the art graphics were amazing. They made their water tower look like a basket of apples.

In Tennessee we came across a very big guitar. I'm not sure what it was advertising, but it did catch your eye as you went by.

But probably the one thing that really caught our eye was a small cemetery in Elliston, Virginia.


What was so strange about it, was that it was right next to where we parked at a small truck stop there. Good news is they were very quiet neighbors.