The Adventure Comes to an End

Left Crawfordsville, Indiana, and headed eastward on I-74.  Went around the south side of Indianapolis on I-465 until we met I-70 on the east side of Indianapolis.  We continued on I-70 until Columbus, Ohio.  We again went around on the south side of the city on I-270 until we returned to I-70.  We crossed into West Virginia at Wheeling with the crossing of the Ohio River

and then crossed the northern panhandle and a small section of Pennsylvania.

 At Washington, Pennsylvania, we got on to I-79 which brought us south and home to Morgantown.

It was still very hot and humid again today and, at least this morning, the skies were very overcast.  We could see a rain storm passing south of us and saw sections of the road that were still wet, but we never got rained on.  It is definitely not as hot as it had been in Nebraska and Iowa, but still not comfortable to be outside.

We have been carrying numerous bottles of water with us in the cooler.  Most of the motels have refrigerators with freezers, so we are able to freeze the bottles each night and use them both to cool the inside of the cooler as well as providing us with cold water.  It has been surprising how much water we have been going through each day, particularly out west where the humidity was unusually low.

The flat fields of Illinois and Indiana gave way to the rolling hills of Ohio and West Virginia.  Still saw some farms in Ohio but not in West Virginia.

No longer flat country, Ohio with West Virginia in background at the Ohio River

All during the trip there have been extensive road construction projects, and the orange signs, cones and barrels have been everywhere.  The highways are frequently down to one lane crossing from one side of the road to the other.  But, luckily, we were never held up for any long periods of time.

Somewhere in Ohio; ah, which way do we go?

Got home in time to make a "picnic" dinner with the lunch items that we had carried in the cooler and to start bringing some of things into the house from the car.  The rest will just wait until the morning.

Home again

This "western adventure" is now a wonderful memory that we will remember for years to come.  There was such a variety of things that we did and so many different types of places that we visited, that it would be impossible to choose one place / activity that I enjoyed the most.

With a digital camera we have captured it all on hundreds of photographs;  Eb says that he has taken 1, 289 pictures that include lots of duplications and many that will be deleted, but we will have lots of visual memories of the trip.  We are home again and the western adventure has come to an end.