Cousin Barbara and I had the wanderlust last week. For some reason, we just had to get in the car and go. Barbara wanted to go to Haysi, VA, to find a roadside marker about some of her ancestors, and I wanted to go to Breaks Interstate Park. Luckily for us, they are only a few miles apart.
Breaks straddles the border between Virginia and Kentucky, and is another one of those places where Daniel Boone found his way through to the west. It is named, naturally, for the breaks in the mountains. In the picture above, we were in Virginia looking toward Kentucky. You can see the railroad, the river, and the road all running side-by-side through the break.
Here we are, and if my arm was just a little bit longer you could see the beautiful view behind us.
It looked something like this......this rocky outcropping is called The Towers. We took this photo from the deck of the Rhododendren Restaurant where we had a nice lunch enjoying the view from enormous windows. The park also has lodging, camping, picnic shelters, a swimming pool, horseback riding, river rafting, lots of hiking trails, and a gift shop.
We didn't hike, but there were several overlooks pretty close to the road, and we took advantage of those. It was worth the return climb up the steps.
This is called the Horseshoe, and I'm sure you can see why. You can really hear the river from this point.
We took a quick side trip to the town of Haysi and found this marker which tells of the death of David Musick and the capture of his wife and children by the Indians in 1792. These folks are direct ancestors of Barbara on her mother's side.
This nifty mural was painted on a store next to the municipal parking lot. It is Haysi some time, we think, in the 1950's. There's a Roy Rogers picture playing at the movie theater and an old VW beetle. When did they start making those?
There was also a nice picnic area overlooking the river....the same river we were looking at high up in Breaks park. Another fun day, out and about, in my mother's country!
Breaks straddles the border between Virginia and Kentucky, and is another one of those places where Daniel Boone found his way through to the west. It is named, naturally, for the breaks in the mountains. In the picture above, we were in Virginia looking toward Kentucky. You can see the railroad, the river, and the road all running side-by-side through the break.
Here we are, and if my arm was just a little bit longer you could see the beautiful view behind us.
It looked something like this......this rocky outcropping is called The Towers. We took this photo from the deck of the Rhododendren Restaurant where we had a nice lunch enjoying the view from enormous windows. The park also has lodging, camping, picnic shelters, a swimming pool, horseback riding, river rafting, lots of hiking trails, and a gift shop.
We didn't hike, but there were several overlooks pretty close to the road, and we took advantage of those. It was worth the return climb up the steps.
This is called the Horseshoe, and I'm sure you can see why. You can really hear the river from this point. 
We took a quick side trip to the town of Haysi and found this marker which tells of the death of David Musick and the capture of his wife and children by the Indians in 1792. These folks are direct ancestors of Barbara on her mother's side.
This nifty mural was painted on a store next to the municipal parking lot. It is Haysi some time, we think, in the 1950's. There's a Roy Rogers picture playing at the movie theater and an old VW beetle. When did they start making those?
There was also a nice picnic area overlooking the river....the same river we were looking at high up in Breaks park. Another fun day, out and about, in my mother's country!
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