The birds were all hanging out near our trailer in Beech Fork State Park this morning. We spotted eastern bluebirds, cedar waxwings, flocks of barn swallows, red-winged blackbirds, sparrows, starlings and ducks and chubby Canadian geese swimming by in the lake adjacent to our spot. We were bad and put a feeder out in a state park and the birds flock to it.
We headed into nearby Barbourville to eat breakfast at a Waffle House where we were served the thinnest sirloin steaks we have ever seen. We wondered how they got them so slim without having holes. Their eggs and hash browns were okay, though. From this upscale eatery, we drove over to the Ohio River and crossed north into Ohio. It looks about the same as it does in WV except the timber has been harvested and houses look much better. We noted some have foundations.
We crossed back into West Virginia at Huntington, a few miles west. Huntington is another WV city with a horrible slum section and some houses out of the inner city that appear to be slums for white, dentition-challenged rednecks. We have enjoyed the natural world and gorgeous state parks here in West Virginia but anyplace these hayseeds have set down their roots it looks like shit. We will be happy to depart tomorrow.
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