{"id":1333,"date":"2009-07-13T20:52:37","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T00:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iomaire.com\/?p=1333"},"modified":"2009-07-14T21:37:01","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T01:37:01","slug":"moving-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/13\/moving-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

I left Floyd on the morning of June 28th, heading for Touchstone, after feasting on a huge biscuit from the Blue Ridge Restaurant<\/a>. They make the best biscuits I’ve ever eaten! My only complaint about the restaurant is that I think that any restaurant that aspires to serve country “comfort” food should offer corn bread. The corn bread that the Blue Ridge Restaurant serves is pitifully small – a tiny, round, not-even-a-mouthful piece of corn bread. They should offer a big slab of corn bread, fresh from the oven, slathered with farm butter ….. yum!!! Maybe, one day, they will.<\/p>\n

I took Route 8 to Christiansburg, where I got on 460 and drove to Hatcher, WV, where I picked up I-77 and then drove north on U.S. 19. Somewhere before Fayetteville, I stopped at a welcome center, where I picked up a brochure about the New River Gorge Bridge. Since I had not done any research on West Virginia before driving through, I was surprised when, not too much further on, I came to the New River Gorge Bridge! I almost kept on driving, but I said, “I really should stop here … I might not see this again.” So I stopped and parked in the lot. I walked by a Christian tour bus (what is a Christian tour bus??) and descended 200 feet on the boardwalk to the observation deck where I saw ….<\/p>\n

\"New<\/p>\n

My goodness!! Way down in the valley, far below, I saw the bridge that this one replaced. The bridge<\/a> was built in 1977 and there is an annual Bridge Day<\/a>, where crazy people jump off the bridge for fun! Yeah, I said crazy and I meant it. No way I’d do something like that! I had enough of that just jumping off a diving board into a pool 20′ below at the Navy Aviation Electrician’s Mate “A” school in Jacksonville, FL in 1968. 876 feet? Nope. No way, Jose.<\/p>\n

After leaving the New River Gorge Bridge, I drove through the beautiful rolling hills of West Virginia to Morgantown. You would never know, by driving I-77 before its junction with U.S. 19, that mountaintop removal is spreading like a cancer through the countryside not far away<\/a>. After a 6 1\/2 hour and 314 mile drive, I arrived at Touchstone at 3:30 p.m. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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