Fleeing the East

Monday October 29, 2012

We awoke to falling snow in the Walmart parking lot In Fayetteville, WV. The more astute of us said it had been snowing since about 5:00 am after raining and blowing most of the night.  At least 1 of us only knew there was snow when we got up. Wilma looked at the weather on the net and after a quick huddle we decided that Detroit would be a good trip for another time since it was mixed rain and ice to the north in West Virginia and Ohio. With that in mind we took route 19 south then got on the West Virginia Parkway (read that toll road) to Charleston then on I-64 into Kentucky. There were stops for fuel and breakfast at a Waffle House that Fred’s friend Garmin located for us.

This might sound like today was a travel day. Well, in fact it was. It was a 0 stamp day.

We continued west on I-64 and ran into the sun in Kentucky. It felt pretty good since we had been driving in the rain through most of West Virginia. Once again, Fred’s friend Garmin located a place for us to eat lunch. It was a quaint little restaurant in Louisville, KY called Costco. They serve a great hot dog. It was a good place to give our sit ons a rest. They had been screaming “get off of me!”  Costco also provided a few snacks for the road trip ahead.

We continued west on I-64 into Indiana and turned south on route 231 near Dale. We drove down to the Lincoln State Park Campground, where we are parked in adjacent spots one more time. It is time for power and shower, and we have an intermittent wifi signal. We will spend the night here then tomorrow we’ll stop for a stamp at the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial just down the road. There is supposed to be a stamp available at the VC.

It has clouded up and is quite windy, so we haven’t outrun the effects of Sandy yet. Glad we weren’t further east when she struck.

That’s it for today. Good night all.