At 11:30pm we left for our 12 hour drive to West Virginia. At 2:30am it was time for a quick rest. At 5:30, with a sore throat, I was ready to drive again. In the afternoon we stopped at Greenbrier, Americas Resort, in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. We were unfortunately were not allowed to leave our car for lack of proper attire. It was still neat to see the outside so I can only imagine the inside.
Our next stop was the Coal Mine Exhibition in Beckley. Our tour guide was the stereotype of a West Virginia coal miner and he played into it. There were several times I had no idea what he was talking about and many couldn’t understand him because of his accent. They had a nice little set up there and it was very informative. They also had many replica houses from mining in the early days, as well as a transplant pre mining town on the grounds.
We left the coal place to head to the raft place. Before we got there we had to cross the tallest suspension bridge in the Western Hemisphere. We entered the Visitor Center, saw the bridge and I had my subway dinner.
A little after five in the afternoon we arrived at the Riverman Class IV rafting campus. Checked in, hung around a little bit, built a fire and debated what to do. Not feeling so well and wanting to be rested for rafting I decided to head to bed early.
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