Day 39 Friday 26th September, Georgetown to Lynchburg Virginia

We started the day quite early leaving the B&B at 9 am as it was going to be quite a long drive today.  It was a long day as we managed to visit 4 states, Kentucky, Ohio (briefly but we did stay long enough to buy fuel), West Virginia and then Virginia.

Interesting Bridge into Ohio

Our day started by following I 64 east past Mt Sterling and the edge of the Daniel Boone National Forest, past Carter Caves to Ashland, where we had a brief foray into Ohio, passing along the “Banks of the Ohio" River for a few miles.

Ohio River, there are some very big rivers here.

We then continued on I64 via Huntington to Charleston. Highway 77 seemed like a better option at this point and provided a very scenic drive to Beckley. Then rural highway 64 again for a while to which took us through some quite mountainous, pretty scenery to Virginia.

Typical of the quite grand houses in this area

Yesterday was the first day of "Fall" and the leaves are starting to turn.

Another Welcome Centre provided a map for Virginia and with the help of the GPS we managed to find our way along some very scenic roads to Lynchburg for the night.

Very few people seem to have fences,
keeping in mind we are on a single lane road with a speed limit of 55mph!

Lynchburg comes into view very quickly, it is very hilly here, an old industrial town.

Federal Crest B&B - a period house was our home for the night

There is still a pipe foundry in Lynchburg, which was first accessed by canal and river boat, then steam train and now modern rail.  We had a lovely dinner in the old Railway Building but had to battle with a large number of children and their parents following the annual children's quarter mile fun run with a large part of the main road blocked off.  The 10 mile adults run is scheduled for tomorrow.