West Virginia

Day 66

A breakfast picnic in Hungry Mother State Park, Virginia. We didn’t see any bears. Had one approached I don’t need to be reminded to make a loud noise.

At some point we crossed the border from Virginia into the cleverly named West Virginia. Our thirty-third state,

We drove to a town called Odd because it was called Odd. After we got there I remembered it’s were an inbred family are. Someone made a documentary. Timmy stood in front our car gathering up his dogs so we could get past.

You can follow this link to YouTube to watch the documentary.

From Odd it was only about twenty minutes North to Whitby. Now we’ve been to a Whitby in England, Cananda, New Zealand and the US. There really isn’t much in Whitby, though Jane saw Whitby Church just as well were driving out.

The community's unusual name has attracted attention from writers. Townspeople were encouraged to think of an "odd" name for their town, hence the name.

Odd went viral in 2020 when Mark Laita's YouTube channel, Soft White Underbelly, posted a video of the Whittaker family, long-time residents of the small town who are inbred.— Wikipedia

A hotel in Beckley for the night.