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I paid $28,500 for this place, its a single wide modular home on about 3/4 acre, but it's a nice place- all I need anyway. Every time I get my tax bill it's appraised at over twice that much, so I don't know whether to be happy that I got a helluva deal, or to be pissed off that i'm getting screwed by the tax man!

Nice trucks, for sure- but it just doesn't seem right that you can buy a house and a few acres of land cheaper than you can buy a pickup truck, and in a lot of places you can do just that.

I've got a lot of pictures from rt. 60, the old weigh station, truck stops, even the VW at the "Mystery Hole" but I can't find them now. Here's some I took over there in a snow storm a couple of years ago- before I got started good I was wishing i'd stayed at Mt. Nemo!

That was before I-64 was finished of course. There'd always be a big line of trucks, because like I said, you could be empty but you'd run up behind a loaded truck, but you could be heavy and dragging and holding everybody else up- until you ran up behind an even slower truck, which you always did. There used to be a big flashing yellow light on top of Armstrong Mountain, it's long gone now though. And they say Smith's Transfer used to keep a push truck up there in winter, so they could push Smith's trucks up the mountain. They would push anybody else that needed it too, I guess so they wouldn't block the road and hold up the Smith's trucks. I knew one driver that got a push up the mountain, he said "I appreciated that, but I really didn't need that shove he gave me starting off the other side!"- True story. There were several truck stops across there, we used to stop at Cedar Grove right much, and Ansted sometimes. There was a weigh station just east of Ansted too, and even a "working girl" who drove a van that worked between Ansted and rt.19- so I heard, so I heard, I don't know that everything I know is factual. And those scars in the road coming out of the last curve coming into Rainelle- I told a driver that was running across there with me one time that they were all from trucks turning over in that curve , but they didn't believe me- but they were. No telling how many trucks turned over in that curve, and in dead man's curve.

I used to run across there a lot, still do sometimes. We could go to Ohio and trip lease loads of steel out of Armco at Middletown coming back to Modine in Buena Vista or Walker Muffler in Harrisonburg because the owner operators around Cincinnati and Middletown didn't want to run the extra miles to Princeton and back north, or run Hawk's Nest on 60. I used to love it, it was a great adventure every time- you just had to put yourself in the right frame of mind before you started across there, realizing you weren't going to make any time, you were going to hold people up, before you got across somebody would be holding you up. Every single time somebody would be saying "why did my dispatcher send me this way?" and "i'm never going this way again!"

apples- just west of Winchester, Va. on rt. 522. There's lots of orchards up around Winchester.

true that!

I like this one- a Mower Man tattoo!

Did you say Mower Man?

Here's where I delivered one piece of pipe in Unionville, Va. Tight spot- I had to turn left out there at the stop sign when I came in, now i'm gonna turn right. That's how they told me to get there, but I looked at it on Google Earth when I got home, and the road straight across goes straight out to rt. 522. Random picture from the interweb of some girl cutting grass. Clean mower, must be a new one.

in a nutshell, and easily explained so anyone can understand- from today's Sunday comics-

pictures- some girl in tight fitting jeans- all of the gripping descriptions are gone...

Yes Underdog, that's where I was at- I didn't try the chicken though.

damn!..

I deleted every thing?..WTF?..I tried to delete one picture because I hadn't resized it, and now everything's gone?..

I...I just don't know what to say...who'd a thunk it?

Yes, apparently- I had nothing to do with any of it, just -sadly, I might add- reporting what I saw on other websites.

Oh well, to each his own...

Here's me turning up an F model with a stick and a chicken bone, around 1984-85.

Well worth the trip! Anybody that's planning a Saturday visit, let me know- I live a couple hours west, and always like an excuse to go to the museum.

I took a whopping load of 5 cubes to Roanoke.

I like sweet potatoes any kind of way you fix them, I never cared for pumpkin though.