Just Another Three State Day

Tuesday we went to Ohio – just because it was there. We were driving through West Virginia (see the power plant photo) and decided it would be a shame to skip Ohio since it was so close - so we drove over the river and then drove back. That made it a 3 state day since we ended up in Kentucky that night.

Yes, those are John’s feet framing the bridge over the Ohio River.

On our way back to the highway, we stopped at a jerky shop and sampled a few of the 15 or so varieties they had to offer. We ended up with Cajun, Beer & Pepper, Black Pepper, and something else that I can’t remember, but it’s pretty good. The owner of the shop was dressed in a “We are Marshall” sweatshirt and he had the original newspaper spread about the Marshall University football team’s plane crash laminated and hanging by the register. It turns out we were in Huntington, WV – home of Marshall University.

We were told that if we were going to be staying in town that night we needed to head over to the high school to watch the basketball game – it was going to be a good one as they have the number one high school basketball player in the nation and Huntington High is ranked third overall. “O.J. Mayo,” the jerky man said, “remember that name because you’ll be hearing it again.” I’m sorry to say we had to move on, as we were planning to be in Lexington by nightfall – it was probably a great game.