Blue Ridge--first day out

That's Lil the Road Dog. She'll go anywhere.

The last post had us leaving our familiar territory, headed for the Blue Ridge Parkway on US 33.

We continued south and crossed the Ohio River near Pomeroy, Ohio. Route 33 crosses West Virginia without entering any large cities, and we had a very pleasant drive through the mountains past Ripley and several smaller towns.

Through here, the terrain is distinctly mountainous and beautiful, but not as steep and twisty on the road as Southern West Virginia, where Loretta's extended family lives.


We stopped after a wonderful afternoon of scenic travel at Cedar Creek State Park, east of Glenville, WV. The park, located a few miles off US 33, offers a scenic setting, clean restrooms and showers and lower rates than Ohio State Parks. We paid our $17 and got the last open space in the park, #1. Space #1 has a fairly small level space, probably big enough for the van, but it was muddy. We decided to park on the other side, which slopes "but not that much" we thought.



You can't see all that well in the picture, but that's Loretta at the picnic table and the van with the hatch open. We decided not to bother putting up the tent; we were tired and we really didn't plan to use the tent anyhow.

I didn't think to keep daily mileage, but we fuelled up on the way out and again at Arnoldsburg, WV, a distance of 154 miles. Our fuel mileage was 21.7 mpg, better than usual.