The college stop on this part of the journey was Virginia Tech. What a really nice campus. It's large yet most of the buildings are stone and as such the old and new easily blend together. It's sports complex, which covers the south end of campus, is all very new and really nice too. All the facilities are located together....football, baseball, softball, track, soccer/lacrosse and so on are all in one centralized area.
Say what you will about West Virginia but its mountain ranges are absolutely beautiful, and endless. 90% of the drive to Virginia looked like this. Simply breathtaking. It's considered the "Valley and Ridge" portion of the Appalachians. This section goes north into PA and is the flavor of the mountains you see around Pittsburgh, or Somerset, or Altoona. As you cross into Virginia near Blacksburg and Roanoke it becomes the famed "Blue Ridge" Mountains which extend to the "South Mountain" chain that is between Gettysburg and Harrisburg.
Who was born in a small house along a creek in Chelyan WV? Basketball Hall of Fame hoops star Jerry West. He is also "The Logo." It is his dribbling icon that is part f the NBA logo.
http://www.logoblog.org/nba_logo.php
Only in West Virginia do you find Tudor's Biscuit World. This is the Mountaineer Breakfast Biscuit --- egg, cheese, Virginia ham, AND a hash brown on a heavily buttered homemade biscuit. Oh my!
As we depart Charleston WV for Salem (Roanoke) Virginia the mileage continues to mount.
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