Around 3:50EST we crossed into the West Virginia mountains. After watching a video of old school superhero movies both boys fell asleep while we cruised along the WV turnpike—who knew WV had a turnpike?!? And good grief was gas expensive there, $3.59 was crazy after seeing it for $3.03 in VA. The temperature had dropped like crazy, it was only 71 degrees up there. We woke the boys up when we got to the first long tunnel to get them to hold their breaths through it, and they both did it, but then immediately fell back asleep! Typical Booton boys!! Stopped for gas at this station in W. Berkley and inside there was a stand with yellow, black and pink shirts with “COAL” written on the front. I knew WV was a coal miner’s state but Geez, talk about pride. Listening to Mumford & Son’s felt appropriate for this part for some unknown reason. The boys and I were playing the License plate game, we quickly marked off at least 12 states, and Nick was doing most of the reading. WV has the most beautiful bridges I’ve ever seen! It’s a small detail compared to the natural beauty but definitely a nice touch. Charleston’s state capitol building, with a gold dome, and the green hues of the side, is very unique. Nick was overly excited when we drove through Putnam County—his best friends last name. After searching for a nice local diner and failing miserably, we stumbled on a 7-Eleven…YAY!!!!!!!!
We ended up stopping at an Applebee’s, usually a safe boring choice. It was AWFUL! It took forever for them to get our drinks (water all around.. should have been simple but.. NO), to get our food orders, and then holy 30-40 mins before we got our actual food!! The water tasted like “whole milk, ya know D-milk” per Jonathan. It had started to rain lightly before we went in and we were hoping it would stop while we ate—for almost an hour and a half! But true to our “black cloud” it started raining even harder! We had to dash across the parking lot and I looked like a local to WV—I had to take my shoes off because I didn’t want to get them wet so they stained my feet and I was wearing a long skirt hiked up—looking so HOT!
I’ve always loved driving through the clouds but it’s incredible right after a heavy rain and the mountains were hot and so it was steaming. Crossed into Kentucky at 8:25pm est, went over this incredible bridge, still not sure of the name but it was all lit up with this plant/factory type structure, either way it was really neat with the water tower as a back drop. Also got a science lesson—who knew deer squat to poop like dogs?!? Saw it first hand as Parker noted—awkward!! The sun setting in Kentucky over the mountains was breathtaking! Trying to get a good picture with the pouring rain is hard. 
Touched base with the Booton’s at 8:30pm est, then sat back and enjoyed the view with my 7-Eleven cup-o-heaven!
Its amazing that at 9:00pm est and it was still so light out!! We were literally chasing the sunset! Saw a pick-up truck with a brown tarp over the back that was light underneath and frayed on the ends and it looked like a bear hide over this furniture—we were all like “NO WAY!” Alas, it was just plastic but after Jonathan and Morgan’s conversation about animal fur our minds jumped there immediately. After an unfortunate unmentioned event::cough cough:: Jonathan doesn’t listen to Phonda after she told him that if he would listen to her this trip could be amazing ::cough cough:: we were set back about an hour when we stopped for gas at 10pm est in Mt. Sterling. Arrived in Louisville at 1am est. We both thought the Best Western hotel was going to be sketch because Garmin brought us in a backasswards way but much to our surprise—very Nice!
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