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After camping at New River Gorge National Park, we drove north through West Virginia on US 119 (which is a very slow, winding road) and WV 28.  It was a gorgeous drive.  It turns out that we were only a few miles from the The Greenbriar.  I wish that we had known!  The Greenbriar Valley was pretty to drive through, as were sections of Seneca State Forest and Monongahela National Forest.  I also wish that we had stopped at a few of the state parks that we passed.  However, we drove through snow during a lot of our drive before lunch.  And, it was still cold and windy. We passed the Green Bank Observatory and Telescope.  We could not go in any buildings because of COVID, of course. In Monongahela National Forest, we stopped to hike as far as you can hike up to Seneca Rock. Seneca Rock   This was the snowy view toward Dolly Sods Wilderness. The Trail to the top was steep. This was as far up to the top that we could hike. The rest involves techni...

 Jesse and I "escaped" for a few days.  It was nice to get away from normal life for just a little while.  We spent Thursday and Good Friday in West Virginia.  The drive on US 19 South was very pretty (and very typical of West Virginia-- curvy and hilly).  Right before reaching Fayetteville we came to the New River Gorge Bridge.  Before going over it, we stopped at the visitors center to explore and eat lunch. The New River Gorge is America's newest National Park.  It became a part of the National Park system in December as part of that stimulus package.  It's been on our thoughts to go here for quite a while.  But since it gained National Park status, we thought that we should visit before it changes and receives even more visitors.   After going across the bridge, we drove through Fayetteville to the Long Point Trail.  We walked a few miles until we had a nice view of the gorge and bridge.  We could also see several waterfall...

 We gathered with some Sharp family members to celebrate Easter.  It was so great to see everyone once again! After dinner, we had an Easter egg hunt mostly for the younger kids.  Plus, there was a pinata for all of the kids. We tried to get all of the cousins (plus Brandy) to look at the camera. She loved the bunny!