Tuesday 25 September - Day 35 - Lewisburg and Beckley

I think I've seen approximately 5 billion trees today, which reagardless of the number seems to be about 0.005% of the trees in West Virginia  :-)
Actually, we did see some beautiful scenery today, although it was one of those days that comes along on these holidays where most of the time is spent travelling.
We stopped at another Walmart then went on to Lewisburg for lunch.
Unfortunately the weather turned nasty - a huge thunderstorm and then ongoing rain.  This was not really a good time to spring a surprise extra stop on us  :-(  
This was the surprise - an old grist mill in a beautiful spot on the river:

As it happens, it would have been a beautiful sight in the rain, but the downpour did make it somewhat uncomfortable.
We then drove on to the New River Gorge to look at the scenery and specifically the bridge - again, a bit underwhelming because of the weather, but the bridge is just amazing. I'd love to come back to it - you can actually do a walk across the catwalk and I'd really love to give that a try!!!  Here's the bridge:

 And this gives some idea of just how deep the Gorge is - this is taken from the same place as the shot of the bridge above:

Final stop for the day is Beckley where we're staying overnight.  Had a really nice dinner at iHop and crashed!
No idea when I'll actually post this by the way - T-Mobile doesn't seem to have any coverage anywhere we've been in West Virginia