Barboursville, WV

It was an earlier start yesterday because we knew we had lots of mountains to go through. The trip through West Virginia was very pretty, but probably the worse roads we have traveled in 3 years. The Interstate between Beckley and Charleston was rough, to say the least, and the kicker was that it was a toll road. It was about a 100 mile stretch that is called the West Virginia Turnpike and they had a lot of nerve charging people to use it. We bounced and wobbled the whole way on that stretch.

We made it to our campground – the Beech Fork State Park – in Barboursville, WV around 2 PM. The park is about 10 miles south of the Interestate, and it was an even worse road than the one we traveled earlier. There were hairpin curves, and barely enough room to drive without pushing the oncoming vehicles off the road. Once we arrived though, we discovered a beautiful Park. There were only electric hookup sites available, but that's fine for one night.

The site we took was right on the lake and very large:

We took a walk around the park after we got settled and took these shots, starting with a view of our site from the bridge leading to our area:

And the main part of the park:

And finally, our view from the back of our rig:

Our goal is to leave by 8:00 this morning in order to get through the bad stretch of road leading to the Interstate before the traffic.  We also need to empty our holding tanks since we only had an electric hookup while here. It will only be 222 miles to Campbellsville, but we leave the Interstate in Lexington, and the rest is state highway which is about 60 miles. It will be nice to get to our destination and get settled in. Also, we don’t have Wi-Fi or cell service here, so I’m writing this entry in Word and will transfer it to the blog when we arrive in Campbellsville. That’s why it is a late post. (Just arrived). Until Tomorrow...