Daily Didactic
The day began in the glorious Swans Nest B&B in Lexington Kentucky. The Swans Nest is a very large house on twenty acres in high test horse country. Our hostess Rosalie was very gracious, in spite of our confusingly late arrival last night (three hours due to car repair in Mt. Vernon, an extra hour because we can't keep track of time zones). We rose late, and hung out until early afternoon to catch up on didactics that had been delayed by recent days' automotive concerns.

We hit the Kentucky road toward West Virginia, hoping to get somewhere near the top of it by nightfall. Tomorrow at noon we have tour reservations at two homes in southern Pennsylvania built by the famous American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, Fallingwater and Kentucky Knob. The humidity that dissipated as we drove into Kentucky disappeared by the time we hit West Virginia and the temperature dropped to a very reasonable lower 80s. We tooled through the rolling and treed hills of West Virginia, thoroughly enjoying the change of climate and views. We slowed down in Clarksburg long enough to grab a little dinner and then we were lucky enough to pull into the last site at the Cooper Rock State Park campground for the night.

The Swans nest		The bus, curious
The entrance		Brian, in a manner to which he'd like to become accustomed
The enclosed garden porch		Part of a garden
The hind end of an expensive pony		The front end can bite, although it did not
A nice find by our navigator		Ahhh, rolled hay
Chimneys that for some reason look like drill bits		West Virginia. Brian 50, Theresa 49.
Slots and dog racing		Oh yes, 'The Institute'...
West Virginia road		An ominous bus shadow
West Virginia countryside		Surely a raccoon could never get up a metal pole

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