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Sep 9, 2012 - Palace of Gold

We had quite a drive heading to the Palace of Gold today. We made the HUGE mistake of following our GPS unit. The website for the Palace warns about using GPS but it gives you the GPS coordinates. There should be a further note on their site saying "DO NOT USE YOUR GPS until you get to the town of Moundsville". It took us over an hour and a half to go from the campground to the Palace which was only about 10.8 miles away. In a straight line, it would have been 7 miles! The reason is that the GPS took us on narrow winding roads all over the...

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Our 2012 Travels

Sep 24, 2009 - Moundsville, West Virginia

The day started out cloudy, but cleared up, and the sun prevailed for the rest of the day. Our drive today too k us from Eastern Kentucky to West Virginia, across the Ohio River into Ohio; along the Ohio River, and back into West Virginia, into Moundsville, and the “Hotel Wal-Mart”. We took the scenic route, and we were not disappointed, sporadically coming upon small, back-country towns, and driving through them on narrow roads and byways, along the Ohio River. It was a lovely sunny day, and the roads were pretty darn good. Interestingly,...

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Cross Country Trip