Day
1--Cincinnati to Glade Springs, WV
August
5, 2013
We actually beat our 9 a.m. departure goal
by three whole minutes this morning, even including time for lots of goodbye
hugs and pictures in the driveway!
It’s a long drive from Cincinnati to
Glade Springs, especially for a ten year old who tends toward car
sickness. But, Natalie emerges unscathed
from our travels, thanks to strategic napping and use of downloaded programs on
her I-pad to divert her attention. We have come such a long way since our first
ten-year-old (actually twelve-year-old) trip ten years ago, when our best
efforts at in-car entertainment were variations of roadside bingo and eye spy.
A lot of our drive was on scenic two lane
highways where we stopped (or even turned around and backtracked) to take
pictures of quilt barns when we spotted them.
We had a picnic lunch at a roadside rest
stop.
And, we got to The Glades late in the
afternoon, with just enough time to drive and wander around to get oriented to the place and all the
options for fun around here.
The Glades has their own private
geocaching challenge, with nine caches hidden around the grounds. At dinner out on the deck of the golf club, we
overheard another family grousing about how hard they had tried to find a cache
hidden nearby, with no success. We talked
with them about it, looked at their clue sheet, and then checked our cell
phones to see that the coordinates of the cache were almost identical to the
coordinates of exactly where we were sitting. After we finished our dinner, Natalie
and I hopped off the deck to see if we could find the cache for them, and just
as Granddad was telling us we were on a fool’s errand, we found it in less than
two minutes. HA! We are no fools.
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