Getting There

On the trip to Chautauqua, we plan to spend two nights on the road. We'll be taking I-95 through Georgia and connect with I-26, where we'll spend the first night in Columbia, SC.  From there, we'll continue north on I-77/79  to Morgantown, WV, where we'll spend the second night.

There are a lot of people on the road,  probably happy like us to be mobile once again. We're finding COVID protocols different from place to place. While most of the time, the workers in the restaurants and gas stations wore masks, guests might or might not. We were surprised by our how many fast food dining rooms remain closed, with drive-through-only service.

Of course, there were the usual construction areas, traffic snarls and accidents, but overall, a smooth go. We even got to drive through a mountain: The East River Mountain Tunnel is "a 5,412-foot vehicular tunnel that carries Interstate 77 and U.S. Route 52 through East River Mountain between the communities of Bluefield, West Virginia, and Rocky Gap, Virginia." Pretty cool.