I'm kind of partial to the mountains, deserts, and badlands of the West, partly because I spent a lot of time in those places when I was younger. I've mostly been through West Virginia on trains (Amtrak's Capitol Limited and Cardinal), but even just from those experiences, I'm inclined to agree with your enthusiasm for it. I particularly enjoy crossing the Potomac and approaching Harper's Ferry. West Virginia may, on average, be the most physically stunning state to me outside of the West.

It always amazed me why houses were built so close to the road - but then again, which came first, the chicken or the egg. The roads were much smaller when it was only horse and carriage.

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This is really cool, I love this.

An interesting idea would be to paint the same road in different areas, so as you look at them, it follows the road. Kind of like an analog Google street view.

Very accurate! I really like West Virginia. We visited there back in '66 when I was 9. Beautiful country but for the undrinkable water where we were. Mom was born in Meadowbrook, Harrison County (there's another Meadowbrook in Kanawha County). She grew up in Stewartstown, Monongalia County and Morgantown, all up near the PA border.

Aahhhhh, WV/The Appalachians!!!

I gots KIN thar! (LOTS o' KIN! So many Kin, I don't even KNOW most of 'em!)

It's such a drop-down GORGEOUS State! It's also so damned economically crippled (The shut-down of the coal industry in general)! I'm still amazed (For all the bad reasons), that NO ONE has figured out another industry they can embrace, to haul their collective tushes OUT of the destitution that runs rampant in that State? Hell, POT is legal in many places (Though perhaps not the best place for large scale grow farms, even small home plots could make families financially stable again?), not to mention other stuffs that could be funded to start off a new way of making a living... Yet,,, nothing really happens?

*sighs*

Lovely piccie! I can never NOT think of Sissy Spacek and "Coal Miners' Daughter" when I see these kinds of images!

That looks amazing !! Wonderful work
I got to go to West Virginia a bunch as a kid to see my dad up until 2011 then got to see some abandoned places that was neat to explore

Living in the shadow of the Edwards Plateau, it always amazes me how big the redbuds get over in Appalachia. Ours are barely 7 feet tall after decades, while the ones over there are at least thrice that tall. It doesn't help that our area is unusually dry for being east of what would understandably cause aridity if we were west of it - my dad called it the "Remuda Rectangle" for years after having heard the expression and I don't know how to tell him that that refers to something completely different than an area of low rainfall with a corner in Remuda Ranch Estates in Fort Worth.