Our time spent in Virginia and West Virginia wasn’t planned to be a stop on the Walkabout. They were more of a means to an end since we needed to get to Kentucky. But the boys hadn’t been to VA, and none of us had been to WV, and adding two more states to our list was a bonus, too. We could call it a win-win.

VA welcomes lovers of goofiness, too!

We stopped at the Visitors’ Center just across the border into Virgina. It was such a nice, big, park-like setting.
Apparently, Virginia is for lovers. Who knew? But they don’t just mean the kissin’ kind. It also inlcudes nature lovers, antique lovers, music lovers, history lovers, you get the point.
Our short drive through VA was beautiful. We loved (wink-wink) it!
As for West Virginia, we spent a little more time there.  Of course, we had to enter the state properly, to the sounds of John Denver singing Take Me Home, Country Roads at the top of Big Boy’s lungs.

We enjoyed driving through serveral tunnels that go through the mountains. Such feats of engineering!

West Virginia was new for all of us. This was an exciting moment. It really didn’t look that much different than VA until we got up into the hills a little and the fog started rolling in. There was a quaint little town snuggled down in a long, narrow valley between the interstate and a mountainside. The mountain mist wafted over the top and it looked so charming.

Our goal was to make it at least to Charleston before shutting it down for the night. We did, and then some.

I couldn’t help but sing to myself, “Feed the birds, toppins a bag…” when I saw the capitol building in the late night sky.

There was construction going on on I-64, and of course, it was the westbound side. They shut down the interstate for quite a few miles, so we had to detour through the hills. Albert and I were so tired. It was about midnight by now, but thankfully we made it to a Home Depot parking lot and were able to get some sleep.

Kentucky was awaiting us the next day.