Gleaning Facebook: Driving Home

At 8:18 we recrossed the Mason-Dixon Line. 12minutes later we crossed into WV where I stood on WV soil for the fitst time in 40 years. Now comfortably lodged deep in the Confederacy after a week abroad, we'll rest a few hours then finish our homeward journey. It's been a fun week.

Comments

Jann Heaton Skeen

have a safe journey home.

Joan Shaw Turrentine

Be careful!

Thomas Guy Beall

Oh Shenendoah, I long to hear you. Away, on rolling river.

Lyn Davis

I'm glad you've had a good time! Be careful coming home!

Charles Yates

We always said we would go back to WVA. It was wonderful for us Teacher Corps family to reconnect this year. I still wonder about Cynthia Weaver. You mentioned Tom Paxton -didn't Susie M. hang with his group at one time? Where in Long Island did yall go? i still have fond memories of Kevin and Rhoda 's parents and families when I visited in the summers. And still saddened by Rhoda's passing. A beautiful person! Be safe and rest up!

Terrell

Suzie was a frind of Billy Ed Wheeler, don't remember her mentioning Tom, but could be. We just drove out 25A from Astoria to Sunken Meadow State Park. We stopped at Cokd Spring Harbor for 4 mile trail walk on the way abd at Norwich for supper on the return trip.

Passing thru WV, tho far from " our WV" in miles and years, brot good memories but a bit of melancholy too.

Barbara Jean Smith

WV lasts forever when you are driving .....

Jerry Taylor

Just a note, WV wasn't a part of the Confederacy. It is below the Mason Dixion line. So is Maryland that didn't join the Confederacy when Lincoln flooded it with Union troops. While I didn't learn it in grade school, I did keep paying attention to the teachers there! Have a good trip!

Terrell

Didn' mean to imply thst Jerry. We were only in WV for thirty minutes. I was deep into the Shenandoah Vally by the time I wrote about WV.

Jerry

Hey how often do I get to show teacher how much I studied? LMAO

Betty Smith Franklin

Wave at Grandma and Grandaddy Smith's farm off 81 before Lexington, right off the Fairfield exit. The "new road" came between the main pasture and the barn.

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Later

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 Creeped last several miles, so are now ensconced at Mickey Ds exploring options via iPad. Go around Knoxville. Wait it out here till traffic clears. ?? Ugh.

Comments:

Jerry Taylor

I've been in several large traffic jams over the years in Knoxville. Place seems to attract them.

Lillian Shaw

Hope you make it home soon.

Terrell Shaw

Roads go ever ever on,

Over rock and under tree,

By caves where never sun has shone,

By streams that never find the sea;

Over snow by winter sown,

And through the merry flowers of June,

Over grass and over stone,

And under mountains in the moon.

Roads go ever ever on

Under cloud and under star,

Yet feet that wandering have gone

Turn at last to home afar.

Eyes that fire and sword have seen

And horror in the halls of stone

Look at last on meadows green

And trees and hills they long have known.

by J.R.R. Tolkien, of course.

Sarah L. Flannigan

I thought you all flew up.

Terrell

Nope we drove. It's a looonnngg way.

Dan Bolton

I did that trip two times along time ago. It is a long way

Terrell

Here's the story on the terrible wreck that tied up I-40 this afternoon:http://www.knoxnews.com/.../nov/26/wreck-closes-i-40-west/