Tag: Beckley

  • North Carolina to Wisconsin – Day 2

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    14 June 2023 Today we travel from Beckley, WV to FMCA Headquarters in Cincinnatti, Ohio. We were up early investigating options for a replacement propane hose. The mining heritage here helped us out. Mining requires heavy equipment with hydraulic hoses, so there is an infrastructure of shops that can make hoses on demand. We called…

  • North Carolina to Wisconsin – Day 1

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    13 June 2023  NC to Wisconsin  Day 1 – Durham, NC to Beckley, WV Stopped to pick-up a recent map at the Virginia Welcome Center. Still love the VA tourism “I Love Virginia” theme. Virginia is thin here, so it was just an hour before we stopped at the West Virginia welcome center. We didn’t…

  • West Virginia Coal Stop

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    24 June 2022 Off we go on another summer adventure. This time it will be a return to Lake Superior to finish the circle route we started a couple of years ago. Heading north from NC, we often drive through the Virginia mountains and notice this shot tower from route 77. Only a short detour…