I found one that was located right along a river, right in the middle of the Appalachian Mountains. It sounded very similiar to the one he wanted to stay at the night before. I called them and had a hard time understanding his southern accent. :) I told him that we would be there late in the afternoon.
We drove all morning, stopped for lunch at a rest stop, and kept going.
In the afternoon, we drove through the GORGEOUS Appalachian Mountains! Nebraska is going to look so boring when we get home!! Matt was concerned at times because the road had 7% decline or incline. We would go up 400 feet in about 2 miles. It was almost like we were in the Rocky Mountains again!
Once we got to our exit for our campground, we got off the interstate and stopped at a visitor's center for New River Gorge National Park. Our campground was right in the middle of this national park! They gave us some information and we headed out to find our campground.
As we were driving along this mountain road, they had lookout points on the river. Here was one of them.
After some trouble, we found our campsite, which literally was right along the river. Here are the kids exploring their new surroundsings. Yes, that is the river right there and I was standing right next to the camper.
After we got the camper set up, we went exploring in the truck some more. It was so much easier (and less stressful to Matt) to drive around without the camper hooked up!There was a couple places of interest along the river, so we headed there. We thought we should do this before the sun went down.
This place was called Sandstone Falls- do you see all the water falls and the guy fishing from the rock? We were there right around sunset, so it was a very pretty sight!
After we were done exploring, we headed out for dinner. Remember I have no meat to eat because Walmart had none to buy the night before? We had asked the people at the office of our campground where we should go eat, thinking they would recommend something "southern." You know what they recommended?? Dairy Queen! Do you know why? Because the building is built on the edge of the river and you can overlook the river as you eat. We took her advice and went to Dairy Queen. I don't know how many times I had heard Courtney mention that she wanted ice cream today!
We went and it was very different! They had a variety of things on their menu that you don't see at home, so it was quite easy to cater to our diets. ( Have I mentioned though that every time I order something on this trip and change it a little, I usually have to send something back? It happened again tonight. I had a salad and said French dressing and they brought me Thousand Island. Send it back!)
Of course, we ended with ice cream. And just because Christian doesn't make a lot of pictures because he is stuck in his stoller, here is a cute one of him! See the window right behind him, the river is right there! It was too dark to see it when I took this picture!
After we were done, we went back to the camper and put the kids to bed! We are hoping to drive 400 miles tomorrow and make it to Mammoth Cave, Kentucky. We want to go through the cave there, it is the longest cave system in the world!
We are going to try to make it there tomorrow and go through the cave on Thursday morning. Thursday afternoon, we are going to start heading towards St. Louis, Missouri. Our goal is to drive 200 miles that afternoon and stay somewhere Thursday night.
According to our figures, we would still need to drive about 100 miles to get to St. Louis. After arriving in St. Louis, we want to stop and see the arch. After we see the arch, we are going to continue onto Arrow Head State Park. We had stayed here about five years ago on one of our trips to Memphis, TN and Matt loved it! He wants to stay there again! This is located about halfway between St. Louis and Kansas City.
We should arrive home in Omaha, Nebraska on Saturday!!!!
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