Blackwater Falls State Park is located in the Allegheny Mountains of Tucker County near the town of Davis, West Virginia. One of the main features of the park is Blackwater Falls which is a 62 foot waterfall. After the water plunges over the falls, they flow through an eight mile long gorge filled with dark [...]
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We saw a lot of amazing things in Phnom Penh, and some very sad history from the 1970′s when the Khmer Rouge, and Pol Pot ruled the country and did a lot of horrible things. The people of Cambodia were very happy and friendly considering what happened to them though, and everyone was happy to [...]
Have you ever heard of the Paw Paw tunnel? No? Click here to check it out!
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West Virginia’s slogan, “Wild & Wonderful West Virgina” truly fits, because no matter where I’ve hopped across this great state, all of the places I’ve seen live up to that promise! One of West Virginia’s hidden treasures that I recently visited is the Yankauer Nature Preserve, located just north of Shepherdstown, West Virginia on Whiting’s Neck Road.
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After three days of constant rain in the Potomac basin, the river’s banks filled to the brim and threatened the low-lying areas along the floodplain–including the C&O Canal National Historical Park. Polly #5 is an avid cyclist who enjoys riding on the C&O’s towpath, and she was concerned that the flood waters would do damage [...]
When Candee told me that she was going on another road trip—she wasn’t kidding! She was planning to ride her bike down the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (C&O) Towpath, one hundred eighty-four and a half miles of bumpy trail that follows the Potomac River from Cumberland, Md. to Georgetown in the Washington, D.C. area. [...]
