To West Virginia

Our next stop was where we lived when we were first married, Charleston, West Virginia. While traveling there we ran into our first snow. It was in the fields and along the road. This was the end of October.

We also saw and interesting geological formation before we got to Cumberland. The rock formation in a cut in the hill was in a 'U' shape. There was a rest stop and an information center that told about it.

The area was sea bed, stream bed, and also a swamp. When Africa started sliding by, the plates colliding caused the area to buckle. Then through erosion, the high hill disappeared and the low areas became the high area that is now the Appalachian Mountains.

We stayed at the home of our old Bishop and his wife. The have two sons who live close. It was good to get to know them as they were preschoolers when we left. On Sunday we were able to see some of the people that we knew when we lived there.

Here is a picture of the bridge where we stayed. They put it in themselves. When they were partly finished, they had a flood that went over the bed of the bridge. They had to paddle out and remove brush that was hung up on it as it wasn't yet bolted down.