{"id":4877,"date":"2016-11-11T19:36:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T00:36:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-06-30T14:49:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T18:49:13","slug":"first-day-on-the-road-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/?p=4877","title":{"rendered":"First Day on the Road South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/LehmansCountryStores_thumb-25255B4-25255D.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"background-image: none; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px 5px 10px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Lehman's Country Store in Kidron, OH\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/LehmansCountryStores_thumb-25255B4-25255D-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Lehman's Country Store in Kidron, OH\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Peggy &amp; I raked leaves and mowed the lawn for the last time on Thursday.\u00a0 We decided to have another supper with Pam &amp; Joan\u00a0 and their kids at Fiesta Jalapenos. A fun night to say goodbye to half the family. But I forgot my phone, so no pictures.<\/p>\n<p>We left about 8:15 AM on Friday morning and took a little detour to Ohio Amish Country. Peg has not been down here for a while so we took our time stopped at the famous Lehman\u2019s Hardware. Then went over to Ashery Bulk Food store to stock up on candy, nuts and some Swiss cheese. A little craft shopping and by noon we were on our way heading south on I-77.<a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Amish-252520Buggiess_thumb-25255B2-25255D.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 5px 5px 5px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Amish Buggies\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Amish-252520Buggiess_thumb-25255B2-25255D-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Amish Buggies\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course we saw lots of Amish buggies and all the kids at schools along the way.<br \/>\nIt was cool but sunny and windy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/PegRockerRests_thumb-25255B2-25255D.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Peg checking out the Rockers\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/PegRockerRests_thumb-25255B2-25255D-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Peg checking out the Rockers\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Peggy, checking out the rockers. I was off mine.<\/p>\n<p>Our drive to Beckley, WV was uneventful and we did some food shopping at Sam\u2019s Club and had dinner before spending the night in the Super Walmart parking lot. We will gas up in Wytheville and try to get into SC near Charleston on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peggy &amp; I raked leaves and mowed the lawn for the last time on Thursday.\u00a0 We decided to have another supper with Pam &amp; Joan\u00a0 and their kids at Fiesta Jalapenos. A fun night to say goodbye to half the family. But I forgot my phone, so no pictures. We left about 8:15 AM on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/?p=4877\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First Day on the Road South<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1617trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4877"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4992,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4877\/revisions\/4992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}