Ramey Road Trip Day 11: A Graveyard Adventure

Today was our last full day in West Virginia! We did not have a whole lot planned but Mama Ramey did have something on her agenda. She wanted to go and try and see the graves of some of her family members who were buried here.

So out into the country we went. After we had our breakfast, pancakes and a really good egg casserole thing, we headed out to go look for the first cemetery.

On our way to the first grave we stopped buy a Walmart to get some flowers to put on the graves. The first one was easy to find it was in a church cemetery so we just needed to hunt down the headstone. Unfortunately, all we had to go on was the picture of the headstone and we did not know where it was so we hunted around until finally we found it.

The next grave was not in a maintained cemetery. It was near a church but the problem was that the graveyard was so old that people stopped caring for it. Let me put this in perspective, there was a grave for slaves of some person. So we tried to hunt around for it, but the fact that there were ticks, a ton of mosquitos, and the possibility of poisonous snakes Jared and I gave up early. The others looked around the rest of the cemetery but they couldn’t find it either.

After grabbing lunch, we headed to our last stop. The final grave was another easy find since it was in a mausoleum. We drove up to it and left our flowers and after a bit we headed out.

While we were out we attempted to go to this tiny history of coal mining museum that was in the town, unfortunately though, it was closed and no one answered the phone number when we called to find out what their hours were.

So we headed back to the house. Jared, CC, and I all decided that we wanted to go on one last kayak adventure before we left. So we grabbed our swimsuits, life jackets, and kayaks and got out onto the water. Our ultimate goal was to get to the falls that were up river a bit and then float back down. However, we got around the second bend in the river when the rapids picked up and since we were not making any progress we started down river early.

By the time we got back everyone had eaten dinner and was sitting out on the back deck by the pool, so we went out and swam for a bit. I started to get cold so I got out, ate dinner, and then grabbed my stuff to take a shower.

After all that everyone was sitting out on the front porch just talking and relaxing. So I joined them since it was the last night. We sat out talking for quite a bit until everyone had to go home, once that happened I dragged Jared out of the house so we could watch a movie and go to bed.

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