Solo American Road Trip 2021

From September 27 to October 20 I took a solo road trip in a small Volkswagen SUV. Starting in NYC I drove through the Poconos to Pittsburg and then south ending up in Savanna before a two day return.

27 Started at Poconos Inn at Jim Thorp then walked the town. Ate tri tips a wroking class bar.

28 Hotel Monica in Pittsburgh walk to strip district have beer eat at hotel

29 Warhol museum Then drove to old mansions and visited Penn Univ. Hanna’s town visit talk with local genealogy expert about Rasors. Bad dinners Brazilian steak house.

30 Rivers of Steel Tour

Tours — Rivers of Steel

Oct 1 Mountainiare Casino East Liverpool Ceramic museum, visited Sheppard grandparents cemetery 

2 Church in Wellsville , drove up and down Ohio river

3-4 south Broadway Manor art visit talk with owners and Frank Loud Wright houses at Polymathin Scottsdale PA go to laundry and walk town

5 WV Lunatic asylum and glass museum in Weston WV,.   Brother and sister showed house with Renoir and Monet paintings, fancy British antique uniforms.

Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum - Wikipedia

6 King George Inn Roanoke Jack the former marina owner and conspiracy believer. 

7 Bristol Sessions country music museum. Lunch at burger cafe local 20+ hangout. Dinner of ribs at biker bar.

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8 drove up to big stone gap and back.  Lots of rain and KFC for lunch.

9-10 NASCAR steak dinner at Black restaurant, fish at Mexician restaurant 

Charlotte Motor Speedway : Nascar, Capacity, Racing Track

11 Columbia SC visit campus Laundromat 

12 Charleston B&B walk town, drive along coast breakfast at Waffle House.

13 Beaufort SC walk about town, drive down hwy 21 to coastal islands,  Gulha areas, visit kazoo museum, visit reconstruction museum, have icee and watch old people walk by.

Beautiful Beaufort, S.C. exudes Southern charm

14 Drove. north thru SC: Walterboro, Edgewood, Newberry stayed at b&b.

15 South to Hilton Head

16-17 savanna, bus tour, old couples,

18 long drive to Richmond almost empty conference hotel listing to Jordan Peterson

19 drive back