Virginia is the place to be

It took to long for the mechanic to look at our truck so someone else was to take our load to Granite City. We now have a load that is to deliver to Virginia. By the way the truck still isn't fixed, one problem we had they just marked it up to a glitch and the air conditioning unit they fiddled with it and said it should work but of course it doesn't we had another night of waking up sweating and had to reset it to make it turn on again. I guess that is better than not having it at all.

We made it to Virginia and so now I can mark off two states that I have been in that I hadn't been in before, Virginia and West Virginia. I started taking pictures of the different state welcome signs as we enter each state and I know I have missed a few from earlier travels but I am sure I will get a chance to get those later.

To get to Virigina we got to cross the Applachian Mountains this time. At first I wasn't impressed but the further we got into them I was just as impressed as I was with the Smokey Mountains. I am snapping pictures right and left of the mountains and thinking "these are cool" but then "BAM" I see a stream with beautifully clear water running over rocks, trickling and making small whirlpools and I start to cry again. I guess I have it down now that it is the combination of the mountains and the streams that get to me. Josh and I discussed about moving to a place like this and I wonder if they would become common and wouldn't be as exciting if we see them daily, maybe, maybe not, but I told him we could definetly go camping there. He looks at these streams and wants to go fly fishing but I just want to walk around barefoot and enjoy the beauty of it all.

We have unloaded our trailer at our destination but now we are waiting for our next load assignment and we have been sitting in their parking lot for about 4 hours now and still not sure where we are going next. I am kind of anxious to know as I want to see fireworks somewhere new this year and hoping they are going to be good ones. I have never missed seeing fireworks each years for as long as I can remember and I don't want to start now. I am hoping to get some great shots of the fireworks as I haven't used the night shots part of my camera yet.

As we are sitting in the parking lot we heard some birds singing in between the rain that has come and gone and it reminded me of those plastic whistles that looked like birds and you put water in them and blow and it kind of sounded like a warbler. I know my grandma had those and as a kid I thought they were just wonderful. I haven't seen those around in a long time, you would think Dollar Stores would carry them as they are just cheap plastic but oh so much fun. I guess kids now days have all these electronic devices to make the bird chirpping noises for them. I think simpler is better.

I want to give a shout out to one of my faithful readers Michelle, her birthday is today but I won't tell how young she is as she has so much more energy than I do even though we are the same age. Kudos to all you do Michelle! Keep up the good work you do and hope you have a great birthday!

This pic is from Ohio, I just thought it was cool how they incorporated the city name into the over pass.

Sorry about all of the bug smears but here in the mountains they are plentiful.  I don't know how well you can see but along this highway for many many miles there were little american flags very neatly down the road.  I am assuming for the 4th of July but there was so many of them I am sure they wiped the stores out of them.

One view of the Appalachian Mountains.  Trust me I have tons more! but I will spare you more pics of mountains.