Live from Danville, Kentucky

Live from Danville, Kentucky

I'm coming to you live from today's winner in the Local Fare Lunch Raffle... a great little place called "The Hub" in Historic downtown Danville.  It's been a long ride again today...,not as long as yesterday.. and definitely not as wet, but we did have to dodge a few...well, more than a few... raindrops.

So last night I crashed and burned after a day of deluge. We got soaked on three separate occasions, but we made the most of our soakings and chalked it up to the experience, but certainly not one I'd relish day after day. We didn't see the sun or blue skies until 5:00pm, but the last few hours of the ride were worth it. 

While it was challenging to really appreciate it through rain speckled goggles, the landscape in West Virginia, along Route 219 where we spent the majority of the day, was full of natural beauty.We were traveling along was what essentially a road cut through the mountains, in Appalachia, with miles of forest interrupted by gorgeous farms and the most unnnatural collection of residences I've ever seen cobbled together. Farmhouses with collections of outbuildings in every size and shape, residences built of brick with  beautifully manicured laws, and trailer home after trailer home - some neat and tidy, and others that looked inhabitable, except that there were cars and trucks, and the occasion Harley parked outside them. They wre interdispersed without rhyme, reason or design, which made me all the more curious to know why someone would build a beautiful two story brick home next to Sanford and Son.

The farms, once there were seemingly nothing but farms, went on for acres and acres, with cows meandering in small clusters or larger herds, with no cares in their worlds.

Jason is getting very adept at manuevering the "sweepers"... long stretches of road with lots and lots of curves...becuase we've been on quite a few of them. Normally I am unphased, looking at the landscape and for the next photo opp, except for the one time I looked to my right and saw how close we were "sweeping" to a gizillion foot drop! Okay, maybe I'm exaggerating a bit, but it was a long, looooooooooooong way down.

Lunch is here, so I'm going to eat. Will be back later tonight with yesterday's pictures and today's tale of adventure.