My Sweet Man and I (and
our girls) just love covered bridges! There is something nostalgic about them.
Maybe it is all the memories they hold, maybe even the longing to be in the country
or the way things use to be, but we just adore them!
I have went with him on
a few trips to Indiana for some work related training. I drop him off at the
trainings and then I explore. The excitement of not knowing what you will find in
the next small town or even as you turn a bin. I have found dairy farms,
antique stores, homesteads, tea rooms and then I found that the area we were at
was the home of many covered bridges. We work best under pressure so as soon as
his training was over and in between the 4 hours we had to be at the airport,
we took off! GPS was taking us through no roads, fields, pastures, it was a trip
indeed but the rewards of finding those covered bridges make it all worth
while. And playing in the snow that no one else had touched was the highlight.
Here are some we saw on
our Indy trips:
We also encountered a
beautiful Covered Bridge this pass summer. We had taken a trip to Shennendoah
and made it down to Natural Bridge and planned to see 3 covered bridges on the
way back to camp. As you see I said “Planned” to see. We pulled up the first
Bridge, Humpback Bridge, on google maps and off we went. We were use to taking
some back roads when we go to the mountains and thought nothing of it when it
happened on the way to the bridge. Well the road got narrower and we climbed up
further, we would turn a corner and the road was a bit narrower and a little
rougher. Then we lost signal and google told us we were not on a road at all.
We were not worried too much about our vehicle, we are 4x4 but the kids were following
in a Kia. We finally came to a decision to turn left or right and turned left
and ended up on the interstate that we started on with the bridge just a little
down the road. Had we stayed on the interstate, it would have taken us 10
minutes but 2 hours later, we made it. It was misty and just turning dark and
the lightning bugs were out! It had to be the prettiest of covered bridges we
have been privileged of seeing.
Sadly it was now dark and the other 2 bridges
crossed state lines in the opposite direction of where we were going. And now
being later, and headed up towards Skyline Drive, we ate dinner at the only possible
place, Waffle House, which made Sweet Man and our little man happy!
The drive might be long
or interesting but isn’t that what memories are made of?
We can’t wait to explore
more of those memories together….
Peace, Love and EnJoy
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