Day 24 - Charleston to Franklin, West Virginia

Sorry folks, for letting you down the last days. No internet in Franklin and lack of time in Washington DC made us fall behind on posts in our blog. But Martin has kept on writing, so here is the update for the last three days;

//Lars

After a banana/chocolate chip cake and coffee at starbucks we started to drive towards Washington D.C. This was going to be the worst food day on the trip.

As the hours and miles flew by ,as they do when you´r driving in 70-75 mph on the highway, we got hungry and stopped at McDonalds.

So far this had not been very healthy.

For lunch/dinner we stopped in a small place which we don´t know the name of and had some pizza.

The waitress asked us; "we´re y´all from?". We replied: "Norway". The waitress:"Ahh..swedish!". Enough said.

After another 50 miles or something we stopped at a grocery store and got cokes, onion rings, beef jerky, cheddar dip, more beef jerky, slim jim, snickers, slim jim sausage and cheese combo.

Most of this "food" was bought by Lars just to test it which means eat it while Erik records it. Nice.

When we arrived Virginia the landscape changed almost instantly to hills and valleys covered in trees + a lot of vineyards all over.

We also saw fireflies(?) and a lot of deers alongside on the huge fields we drove by.

When it got dark and started raining the mood suddenly switched on us.

The beautiful landscape, farms and old houses started to look more and more like the ones in the horror movies. It didn´t help that we started talking about movies like that.

We could see about 10 feet in front of the car and there was forest on both sides off the road...scary.

We arrived in Franklin around 22:15 and some helpful people at the gas station called someone they knew with the only motel in town and got us a room. Thanks.

Tomorrow we will go for a sightseeing here in West-Virginia and then go to Washington D.C.

Good night.

// Martin