Took off about noon on Sept. 2 and drove to Douthat State Park in western VA. It is supposed to be one of VAs premier park. We try to forget that a woman was attacked by a bear here three weeks ago. There is a pretty small lake with good fishing. Dale is regretting not packing a rod. We have a picture if we can figure out how to upload it to the blog site. Thursday morning we were on the road early driving through the mountains of West Virginia. It was bea...

Hi folks, we are trying to get ready for our trip out west (apologies to Horace Greeley for the misquote). This is our first attempt at blogging so please bear with us. We are trying a different site than the one my sister usually uses. I am using today to get the blog set up and then probably won't make any further entries until after we actually leave on the third. Dale is out washing the van so we will start out clean but don't expect it to stay that way...