beginning of day one. we left around 7:30 on saturday morning. here is a shot of mississippi between starkville and tupelo. i have realized from my journeys around mississippi the past few weeks that apparently cotton is no longer king. this pic is evidence to this fact. what once was a cotton field is now a corn field. cotton is now queen as farmers have crowned corn with its ability to yield ethanol and lots of money.
tennessee. i wanted to listen to ryan adam's song "tennessee sucks," but the cd was packed in the truck.
that's one big bag of groceries! apparently people are hungry here in jackson, tn.
and kentucky. i almost missed this sign. snapped it just in time.
this is somewhere in kentucky - i think around bowling green, where, by the way, the national corvette museum is. also close by is mammoth cave national park. we actually stayed the night on the kentucky - ohio border in walton, ky, which is just outside covington, ky, and cincinatti, oh. after a little over 10 hours in the car and a delicious meal from raymond's hong kong restaurant, day one came to an end.
beginning of day two. we left our glorious holiday inn express around 7:30 sunday morning and drove into cincinnati. i wish i had a picture of us entering the city. it was gorgeous as we descended into the hazy city on a bridge early in the morning. even better than the view was the fact there was no traffic. any way, i didn't see a "welcome to ohio" sign, so i took this picture a little later on. a bunch of barns around the interstate had paintings like this one.
here is another shot from the ohio/kentucky region. i was trying to get all of the cars in our caravan in the picture as we descended this hill. all you can see is elizabeth directly in front of me and our budget truck driven by my dad.
west virginia. this was a tricky shot as i was going 70 mph and the sign was above me on the bridge into wv. we were only in west virginia for a moment, but it was a glorious moment. elizabeth and i quickly decided we wanted to live there when we get done with school.
this is why. mountains, mountains, and more mountains. my feet were itching to get my hiking boots on. unforunately, they were packed somewhere in the middle of a 15' budget truck that was packed from floor to ceiling and from front to back. really, i am not quite sure how both dads and randell foxworth managed to get all of our stuff into this truck. thanks guys!
yay!
a sign of hope after over 15 hours in the car.
the tunnel into the burgh.
the light at the end of the tunnel - downtown pittsburgh!
cheers,
jw
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