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Beginning Day 7, Wendy and I drove to the Asheville Airport - I guess we don't need to worry about the location of her Gate or her Fight:
I then grabbed Post Offices, making it as far as 28710 - Bat Cave, NC (Best Post Office today!):
Back up into Asheville to visit the Asheville Art Museum:
There were only 3 pieces I liked to see: Maya Lin - "Pin River-French Broad River", 2007, steel pins:
William C.A. Frerichs - "Western North Carolina Landscape", circa 1860, oil:
Childe Hassam - "The Old Elm", 1916 oil:
I headed north up into West Virginia:
After 459 miles, I spent the night at the Super 8 in Elkins, West Virginia:
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Day 8 - Time to hit the road in West Virginia - on the Seneca Skyway and the Birdeye Bend:
Beautiful stream:
Lovely Drive alongside the Cheat River:
Cutest little Post Office in Silver Lake, WV:
Pennsylvania countryside:
Best Imposing Post Office = 15901 - Johnstown, PA:
I decided to stay in the same Super 8 in Mifflinville (350 twisty-turny miles today):
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Day 9 - Because it is the 4th of July, I think I will just head home. Cool picture on 128 in Beverly at 1 PM:
Home at 1:15!!!! - in plenty of time for this evening at the Manchester Yacht Club:
373 miles today; 2,895 miles for the whole trip! Thank you God for these GREAT Adventures!
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Music for Day 7:
Peter Rowan & Tony Rice - You Were There For Me, 2004 album, last heard 9/28/2016 - ok folk music:
Florence & The Machine - Ceremonials, 2011 2nd album, last heard 3/13/2017 - ok album:
Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick, 1972 album, last heard 3/13/2017 - I like this album from 53 years ago:
Pat Metheny Group - Pat Metheny Group, 1978 debut album, last heard 3/13/2017 - I really like this album, ever since we bought it in NYC:
Vangelis - Chariots Of Fire, 1981 soundtrack album, last heard 3/13/2017. SOOOO COOL - that's me running on the beach:
Van Morrison & John Lee Hooker - Too Long In Exile, 1993 album, last heard 4/22/2017 - This is just a single cut from the album - a KILLER VERSION of "Gloria", sung by Van Morrison and John Lee Hooker!!!:
Pink Floyd - Meddle, 1971 album, last heard 4/23/2017 - I really like this album:
The Moody Blues - Legend of a Band, 1989 Greatest Hits album, last heard 5/08/2017 - Excellent Greatest Hits album:
James Taylor - One Man Band, 2007 live album, last heard 5/10/2017:
One Eskimo - One Eskimo, 2004 album, last heard 5/10/2017 - interesting, and pretty cool:
Billy Joel - 52nd Street, 1978 album, last heard 5/16/2017 - I love trumpeter Freddie Hubbard on "Zanzibar":
various - 18 New Wave Classics, Vol. 1, 2007 album, last heard 5/16/2017 - great collection:
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Music for Day 8:
various - 18 New Wave Classics, Vol. 2, 2007 album, last heard 5/16/2017 - another great collection:
Frank Sinatra - '57 In Concert [DCC], recorded 1957, released 1999, last heard 5/22/2017 - very nice recording of Sinatra live (?at his peak?):
Diana Krall - The Very Best of …, 2007 Greatest Hits album, last heard 5/24/2017 - because I have many of her albums, this "album" is only 4 songs: "Frim Fram Sauce", "You Go to My Head", "Only the Lonely", "The Heart of Saturday Night":
Todd Rundgren - The Very Best of …, 2014 Greatest Hits album, last heard 5/24/2017 - very good collection:
Frank Sinatra - The Very Good Years, 1991 Greatest Hits album, last heard 5/24/2017. Very good collection from his Reprise years:
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - Live In New York City (2 cds), 2001 double-live album, last heard 10/10/2015. GREAT album of his Reunion Tour (I saw 3 shows in Boston!!):
Al Stewart - Past, Present & Future, 1973 album, last heard 5/22/2017 - I like this a lot:
Johnny Cash - Unchained, 1996 album, last heard 5/22/2017 - excellent album:
John Mayer - Battle Studies, 2009 4th album, last heard 5/27/2017 - good songs:
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Music for Day 9 (albums I have never heard on a Road Trip):
Wes Montgomery - Smokin' at The Half Note, 1965 live album, last heard never - wonderful album; I look forward to getting to know it better:
Van Morrison - Roll with the Punches, 2017 album, last heard never - nice Van Morrison album:
The War On Drugs - Wagonwheel Blues, 2007 debut album, last heard never - we have been listening to The War On Drugs this year, and like their albums:
The National - Laugh Track, 2023 album, last heard never - a good album from The National:
The Moody Blues - To Our Children's Children's Children, 1969 album, last heard never - I recently ripped a bunch of Moody Blues albums, so here we go:
Simple Minds - acoustic, 2016 album, last heard never - I ripped this before seeing them this summer. Nice acoustic versions of their songs:
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