Hummy at the CIA (Culinary Institute of America)
Falling Water
David and I, with the rolling hills of West Virginia behind us
" The Smallest Catholic Church in the US"
David and Hummy with the Green Bank Radio
Home!
The road home: We left David's friend's place in Western Massachusetts and headed south through western New York. We drove along the beautiful Hudson Valley and stopped at the Culinary Institute of America for a yummy lunch and then pushed on through, all the way to Allentown.
From there we headed west to see Frank Lloyd Wright's famous house, Falling Water, in south-western Pennsylvania. It was all clean lines and built in furniture and made me want to redesign our dream house. As you can see from the photo above, the house is built above a waterfall. You can hear it throughout the house but you can't see it from any of the windows or terraces!
The next day turned out to be one of our favorite of the trip- riding along the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia. It was all curvy roads, farming valleys and mountains. We visited the Green Bank Radio Telescope as well and had a wonderful tour there. It's dish is the size of a football field and it was instrumental in the discovery of the black hole at the center of the universe. We both dream of moving to West Virginia someday and David is excited by the new career path he never considered: radio astronomy.
Unfortunately, after that beautiful day, we had to bolt home, across four states, in some pretty crappy weather. We had to get to Kansas again so that we could spend some time with David's family before heading back to Omaha. They were some hard days, just pushing through 10 and 11 hours. We're not doing that again!
All in all, it was a great trip and there was never any time when I wished we were doing it differently. It was amazing to me how much more I saw when we were on the bike. I looked around and really *saw* more. We had a great time and can't wait to do it again.
