Trip Pictures
Subtitled: This is what middle America looks like.
Some didn’t come out too well. They tend not to when you take them out of a car going 70 mph. Like the first two, taken in Indiana. The first was to document the limestone. Indiana has so much limestone they face roadworks and build partitions with it. Clicky to biggy.
And the second, also taken in Indiana. It’s a family farm.
The reason I took that was to document something I mentioned on one of my previous trips, that while in Indiana, the landscape on both sides of the road is dotted with family farms, the road in Ohio is lined with fallow land that’s obviously mowed. This is Ohio:
This is also Ohio, but eastern Ohio, in the foothills of the Appalachians.
Welcome to Wheeling, West Virginia! The tunnel is immediately on the other side of the bridge over the Ohio River.
This is where, to me, the mountains begin (going east) or end (going west), Cabela Drive, in the Ohio Valley in West Virginia (called that because there’s a huge Cabela’s there). Going west, it’s the last place you see one of those 6% GRADE TRUCKS USE LOWER GEARS signs, and going east, it’s the first place your ears pop.
And only 14 miles down the road:
Mangy the Bear at the Welcome Center is celebrating the holiday:
The bridge over the Monongahela River at Monessen.
US-22 at last! Only 95 more miles.
And Sheetz!
It got dark before we got much further, so I took some more pictures while doing errands yesterday. Almost to the crest of Skytop. We live less than two miles from here, on the other side of the mountain.
Note that even after four days of above freezing temperatures, the snow isn’t gone.
And hallelujah! The exit that leads almost straight to our front door!
And in State College, local geography. The nearer mountain range on the left is the Nittany Range. The further range at the right is the Tussey Mountain range, which runs all the way to North Carolina. The ski slopes are on Mt Tussey.
And dairy farms just outside State College.
All of the Christmas trip photos:
rightwingprof :: Dec.29.2008 :: IN, PA :: No Comments »
