The supposed 5 hour drive to West Virgina (also known as the mountain state) ended up taking 9 hours. The state has the largest sycamore tree in the world, and is famous for its golden delicious apples, and the movie 'Patch Adams'. Fun facts i thought! We arrived at the Adventures on the Gorge camp site at about 1800 to discover a beautiful woody area with loads of space to pitch our tents. 'Team A' took charge of dinner and made an impressive spag boll, and we ...

It was an early start this morning as we needed to hit the road in good time to make the 5 hour journey to West Virginia. We showered at 0630, packed our tents away, had brecky, loaded the trailer and set off around 0800 heading south. The journy didn't feel too long. We amused ourselves listening to music, reading, writing bloggs and making 'friendship bracelettes' rather like the ones i made in the school playground when I was 9 when we sat cross legged on the...