A BALLOON GLOW and

...A WAGON TRAIN--

Our 4th of July celebration was launched Friday evening with Ashland's very popular Balloonfest and it's featured attraction of glowing balloons.  We concluded our weekend in and around Perry County, OH; lady-friend Sue Brooks' birthplace on the northern rim of Appalachia in southeastern Ohio.

Along with Sue's sister Patsy we enjoyed great amusement when the folks in the wagon train below were described as a version of Appalachian Mass Transit when they trundled by us under threatening skies somewhere in the bottom of Morgan County.

Sometime later we will get around to sharing some stories of our adventure by taking a peek at Shawnee, OH, a crumbling coal mining town that dreams of its own renaissance, and a visit to Robinson's Cave which describes itself as the birthplace of the United Mine Workers.