Whitestown, IN

My routing for this trip had me taking some US highways, and though I could have opted to stick to the interstate, I took the suggested roads. It turned out to be a really nice trip out of Virginia and through West Virginia. I took US-460 between I-81 and I-77 and US-35 out of West Virginia and got to drive through the heart of coal country (one road sign referring to a coal mine may not be the heart of coal country, but this is my world so play along). At times, the highway was snaking along next to a small river, flanked on both sides by steep, rocky cliffs. On one side of the river was the highway; on the other, tens if not hundreds of small, weathered, old houses that had seen better days. They were clustered in the valley between the cliffs, as if they had all been washed down the hillsides and ended up at the bottom with nowhere to go. There were no strip malls, no fast food restaurants, and no gas stations; just mountains, river, and houses. Really awesome.

Ohio, on the other hand, was just boring. And at 55mph all the way across, boring for a long time.

I need to get an early start in the morning, so it's time for bed.