West Virginia

day off today. we headed to ohio by way of west virginia. stopped at cracker barrel adn stayed the night in charleston. last time i stayed in charleston west virginia, it was after one of the worst nights of my life.

two years ago i was on tour and sarah was with me. we were in west virginia and we were planning on calling an early evening, staying in the hotel and watching tv till we fell asleep. it was gonna rule.
so we stopped probably 100-150 miles before charleston but we couldn't find a room at the exit we took, and could not find a hotel room anywhere at said exit cuz there was some car race in the area that night. so we hopped back on the highway and took the opposite side of the exit which took us way off the interstate, still couldn't find a room, so we continued on one of those small highways like 19 or 20 that took us to another small town and another hotel that was full. by this time it was 2 hours after where we originally wanted to be and we weren't quite sure where we even were.

we then tried to find our way back to the road but couldn't, winding deeper into deep w virginia, came across a convenience store that seemed like some shady shit was about to go down in right before we came in. they gave us directions, telling us the entrance for the highway was just down the road 15-20 minutes away. we thanked them then proceeded to drive for the next 45 minutes through the dark ass hills curving through lightless black with no signs and nothing to tell us we were going the right way except for the hope of that man's directions, while wondering if they were faulty directions in order to be waylayed. it was a horrible hour of fear and tears and confusion and not having any fucking idea if we were heading straight or further into the abyss. we finally came upon the highway hopped on and kept on driving till we made it to charleston, saw a motel 6 lied about how many people were in our room, stumbled into it and feeling like little pieces of tired shit, fell asleep.
the following morning we did have a great and cheap breakfast though.

nothing like that this time. we stopped at the cracker barrel for dinner. drove a little further to charleston and called it a night.