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I thought a Giant looked like this.

Saw this girl by a Mustang fastback holding a gas can in Winfall yesterday when I was going to Rustburg. She might have been out of gas or something, I don't know,didn't stop to ask.

There's been some downtown construction in Gormania since then. this pic. was taken in April,2012- Now there's a big building there. I like that big wooden building there, just neat looking. Wonder what it was?..feed store/jailhouse...general store...mill?..who knows.

me too. I used to stop and shower at John Skidmore's, last couple of times I went over to the Pilot there was nowhere to park, I just head straight to the Go- Mart now. Stopped there more anyway, usually just run in and grab a sammich and a coffee and hit the road, fuel there sometimes.

you got that right! I had a load going to Mullens W.V. one time and rt. 10 out of Princeton looked like the logical way to go- same deal, had to take the whole road to get around a lot of the curves, and you couldn't see if anything was coming towards you. And no truck restrictions on the road at all. When I got to Mullens they said "oh, nobody goes that way, you should have went to Beckley and then took rt. 16 down here." I went up 16 to Beckley when I left there. I don't think they have any restrictions in W.V. I took a load of pipe to a job site up around Fairmont one time and I got off of 79 on some little small road. I thought "I don't think this road is big enough for a big truck", but it was the way my directions said to go. I went maybe a half mile and there was a sign that said "road narrows ahead". "Great" I thought, "i'll end up lost in W.V. forever, i'll have to abandon my vehicle and walk out of here." But I made it in and out ok of course, or i'd still be wandering around in them W.V. hills today.

I was there Thursday, from about 4pm. until a little after 9.

thank you.

Thanks Ken, I think overall it's pretty good, I still take some bad pictures though. What I was looking for was a true "point and shoot" because I want to be able to grab it quickly and take decent "drive-by" pictures without having time to adjust any settings on the camera, and so far I think it's doing a pretty good job with that. And that 14X zoom is just like icing on the cake, when i'm stopped that is. Doesn't work too good when i'm running 95-100 mph.

I took a nap for about 4 hrs. at Flatwoods, took this night shot when I got up. Found the camera has a "night landscape" setting. I never did actually read the instructions, maybe I should do that sometime. I'm pretty well pleased with it so far though.

I'll have to check that out, never stopped there. I usually stop at the store on top of the mountain at the corner of rt. 42 and 93 where you turn to go to the power plant, where everything is outrageously over priced.

At least he did the right thing when he realized he was between a rock and a hard place, some drivers probably would have kept going until the trailer was over the edge. http://cdllife.com/2013/top-trucking-news/stuck-driver-says-gps-led-him-up-steep-road/

There used to be a little motel right across the road from the go mart,by a little restaurant, across the parking lot from that gas station/convenience store. don't know if it's still open or not.

I saw some wildlife in the parking lot in Flatwoods too.

More Earl Paddock grizzly pictures, from the interweb.

thanks Vinny!

arrrrright then, part two- I picked this load up at B & W Thursday...or maybe it's BWX Technologies, or something like that now. Anyway, they're the nuclear people. Very high security place, they have armed guards all over, machine gun towers, razor wire, the whole deal. They search the truck inside and out before you go in, no cameras, cell phones, cb mike, tv, tobacco products, drugs, alcohol, or weapons are allowed, so I put all that stuff in a sack and left it outside before I went in the facility. I asked them about the old steak knife I put in the truck to slice some tomatoes I brought from home to put on sammiches. They said "oh, that's fine, you can keep that." I put it in the bag anyway, but I still don't understand why it's ok to have a steak knife, but no cd's or dvd's are allowed in. Maybe they thought I was a ninja, and a cd would be deadly in my hands. This is what I picked up. Went to a scrapyard in McKeesport, Pa. I thought it was stainless steel, which it is really, but it's something called "Inconel alloy 690". ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inconel) The guy that loaded it said what I had on was worth about a quarter of a million dollars. I asked about it at McKeesport and they said it had a very high nickel content. The steak knife... Saw some big Mack trucks... this one ain't looking so good... Cabover KW wrecker in Blue Ridge, Va. I was sitting in Flatwoods, W.V. and saw this load of wood going to the particle board place. And this red Mack truck. Picked up 5 coils in Pittsburgh, going back to Lynchburg. A hayes grizzly on a Kenworth out of Canada. Took a lot of random road shots- headed up to that little dot on top of the mountain. and there it is.... more road shots- and then...on the way home I saw this girl sitting in a chair by the road in Winfall.

They just got you married, that's all.

We need more of this...

There's an old saying, "it's just as easy to be nice to people as it is to be hateful" and it's very true, makes you wonder why some people choose to be a-holes.

She's getting warmed up for her turn on the pole...

Took a few so far, mostly playing with the new picture taking device. Saw this aminal in a tree before I left. Saw this creature on the side of a boxcar in Dillwyn. Saw these goats. I never changed any settings on the camera but they looked different, the sun was already down. Then I took a picture of the sky because that one cloud looked like a dog's head. Saw some machines too-orange ones and yellow ones. Nice nut covers,eh? I saw a car... ...and a girl in a car. Saw some apples too. Leaves are already turning. Still liking that zoom! That house and those transformers are way over there. The sign on the fence. Mountain in Lynchburg.

Took a couple pictures of the rail when I unloaded Monday.

I think he was a member here- seems to me somebody commented on his truck one time and he apparently joined just to reply to that comment, and hasn't been heard from since. Anybody else remember?..I could have dreamed it, but I don't think so.

again.