You need to stop at the top of the mountain on 250 and check out the Confederate earthworks next time.
They dragged cannons up that mountain to keep the Union out.
I turned north on US 220 at Monterey and went into WV to look at property. Beautiful area.
I stopped there at the turnout next to the earthworks and walked the trail/path for an hour or so.
Looking down from the ridge seems pretty incredible that they cut that road with ax and spade. Given what the “modern” road is like, it must have been quite the adventure to travel with loaded wagon, either direction. Easy to lose that perspective.
Being up there on the ridge in the winter time, waiting for a fight took some real grit.
As long as the world doesn’t melt down this fall, I’m going to go back and spend some time wandering around wondering at it all.
I went over to Weston and Clarksburg and spent a few days stomping around west of I19. Some great quiet spots with plenty of trees, water and still have flat enough spaces for a house and a little agriculture.
Have to see how the rest of this summer pans out. It’s been a relatively slow year so far, but I’ve just completed a 21 state driving loop through the country. I’m always keeping an eye for places to go back and spend some time.
Just wish sanity, or something resembling it would return to our country, though based on how things have beeb going the last two, I think they are getting worse, not better.