Last stop: Canton Bear Creek KOA

Today's adventure involved a lot of ups and downs.

Ups as in mountains in North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia and downs as in 'what goes up, must come down' and again we had some pretty stiff cross winds. The West Virginia turnpike got us for $7.50 (an extra $1.50 for the trailer) and I've seen better roads in Michigan, if that tells you anything.

If you're going to charge people to drive on the roads, at least use the money to make the roads better.

We were on the road just in time this morning to get locked up in heavy traffic in Charlotte, N.C., but after that brief problem, the rest of the day was pretty much clear sailing, to use that analogy again.

The Bear Creek KOA campground tonight is a little primitive, as in no cable TV, but otherwise clean and very nice. So we're working online (they do have wifi) and listening to our radio. We could have been watching our Netflix movie, but I accidentally sent back the one we hadn't seen and kept the one we already watched.

Front page headline in the Canton Repository: "No jail for man who urinated on Walmart steaks." He does have to pay $688 for the steaks and do 100 hours of community service. Here's the link.

After dinner, Joan and I took a little walk down the road and found an old cemetery - Zion Cemetery - in which are buried four Civil War veterans. Kind of cool to see. I've included a photo.

The last leg on the trip promises to be a short one and I'll check in with the final totals tomorrow or Thursday.

Time out and mileage: 9:02 a.m. - 33349

Time in and mileage: 5:45 p.m. - 33810