Hello from WV!

[stuckmotor]

:welcome: I inderstand WV is beautiful country. Sent off for a tourist brochure probably 20 years ago. I'm still waiting for it to arrive.

 

[alextassos1]

:welcome: I inderstand WV is beautiful country. Sent off for a tourist brochure probably 20 years ago. I'm still waiting for it to arrive.

Thanks you. 20 years ago they probably didn’t have a tourist brochure lol. WV has come a long way. We have some of the best atv trails in the country now IMO and are slowly becoming more economically diverse. It’s an absolutely beautiful state. I always look forward to coming “Home” anytime I’m away for awhile.

 

[GirlWhoWantsTractor]

Welcome to TBN. Have done a whole lot of hiking, backbacking, fossil-hunting, and flyfishing for trout in WV. You're lucky to live there.

 

[stuckmotor]

Thanks you. 20 years ago they probably didn’t have a tourist brochure lol. WV has come a long way. We have some of the best atv trails in the country now IMO and are slowly becoming more economically diverse. It’s an absolutely beautiful state. I always look forward to coming “Home” anytime I’m away for awhile.

Maybe I'll just cut loose and head up there one day. I have a friend from somewhere up there. She says her grandfather was raised by Devil Anse Hatfield. That gives her status in my book.

 

[alextassos1]

Maybe I'll just cut loose and head up there one day. I have a friend from somewhere up there. She says her grandfather was raised by Devil Anse Hatfield. That gives her status in my book.

Haha. She must be a McDowell County girl! That’s a whole other world down there lol.

 

[Bird]

Thatç—´ where we live now. Actually Bluefield WV is our address but weæ±*e closer to Princeton. Making the long journey to Bluefield VA hopefully next week when we close on our house lol. Whole 15 min away.

That's interesting. My wife's oldest brother was an assistant principle and general science teacher in Bluefield for many years, lived in what I guess is the eastern edge of Bluefield, almost in Princeton, raised one son and two daughters there. He died in 2009, but his wife still lives in the same house they lived in the first time I visited West Virginia in 1967. I met my wife in Dallas and we'd been married 2 years before we made our first trip to West Virginia and I got to meet the rest of her family.

And I still think Pipestem State Park is the best state park I know of. We've been there many times, including before it was built. But August, 2014, was the last time we were in West Virginia.

 

[alextassos1]

That's interesting. My wife's oldest brother was an assistant principle and general science teacher in Bluefield for many years, lived in what I guess is the eastern edge of Bluefield, almost in Princeton, raised one son and two daughters there. He died in 2009, but his wife still lives in the same house they lived in the first time I visited West Virginia in 1967. I met my wife in Dallas and we'd been married 2 years before we made our first trip to West Virginia and I got to meet the rest of her family.

And I still think Pipestem State Park is the best state park I know of. We've been there many times, including before it was built. But August, 2014, was the last time we were in West Virginia.

We are fortunate to have Pipestem as well as Bluestone state parks so close. I grew up in Summers county so we spent a lot of time at both parks and on the lake. It’s a shame lack of good jobs has seen a real decline in the area which is very rich in natural beauty.