Do it Again!

Miles Thursday: 171

Today Jaron felt better so we planned a route to hit some Butler G1-rates roads around Beckley. There were a lot of roads lined with sheer cliffs and it was super pretty. 

We had lunch at Subway and then ice cream at Dairy Queen, where they let us in to the lobby to order but we couldn't sit inside due to staff shortages. It was raining so the cashier set up an umbrella for us, and none of it made any sense but it was nice of him. 

We found the G1-rated road. There were a couple of points where you came around a turn to see literally four sets of signs for the next four turns. Hard to know what to look at! So you just looked at the road. 

A bridge was closed, so Jaron had to identify a detour. Julie goes, man, we'll have to do the G1 section again. It turns out the detour did not require us to backtrack, but now Julie wanted to just to do the cool section of road again. So we did it again and I did the entire thing in 2nd gear and actually left Jaron behind at a few turns, which NEVER happens. Now we had to turn around to get back to the new route, so we got to do the fun road a 3rd time. 😎 My theme music today was all 9 Fast & Furious soundtracks on shuffle, so it was basically perfect. 

We made it back by 6, well in time for dinner at the Inn restaurant. The special was pinto beans & cornbread, which sounded incomplete so we asked about it. Our waitress observed that we weren't from around here and explained to us that it's a thing here. Then when it came time to order dessert a different server listed baklava among our choices. Jaron goes, baklava!? And our server started to explain what it was. Jaron goes oh I know what it is -- I'm just surprised to see it here! So today was the day of getting food explained to us at both ends of the spectrum. And the baklava was really good. 

We spent our 4th & final night / 2nd extended night at the Historic Glen Ferris Inn and got ready to turn east again towards home.