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Yeah, I got a little sidetracked on my description of the route form Columbus to Myrtle Beach. My bad. 

At any rate, the only part of that trek that was Interstate was the part that ran through West Virginia and the portion of northern Virginia that is located directly south of WV, near Virginia Tech and ODU. 

Stayed at Pipestem both ways. Pipestem rules, btw. 

Hey nobody puts BB in a corner

I stayed at Pipestem a couple years ago. I have family in Parkersburg and met them at Pipestem. Neat place.

Uncle Billy wouldn't recognize the place

On top of Jellico Mountain off I-75, some developer decided to construct a retirement community, from nothing.  The TN DoT built a fancy bridge and interchange to access the site.  I stopped once at the sales center to have a look.

Not a single house was every built, not one, "Rarity Mountain" it was called.

Almost Heaven!!!

One of only two times I've been there it was almost Heaven upon arrival.
I was the front-seater in the ferry flight of a brand-new AH-64 from the McDonnell-Douglas Helicopters plant in Mesa, AZ, to Andrews AFB, MD, to be put on a C-5 and flown to Saudi Arabia for Operation Desert Shield.
We had terrible weather the whole way, and we ultimately got into Andrews about 6 hours too late for the Apache to be loaded on the C-5 on which it was supposed to be shipped.
The St. Louis-to-Wheeling, WV, day was typical, but the worst at the end.  We couldn't get out of St. Louis (Lambert Field) until noon because along with very low ceiling and very little visibility it was raining.  After maybe an hour of following I-64 at low level, the clouds lifted enough for us to fly normal VFR to Louisville.  We landed at some airport not named Louisville International--Clark Regional, I think--and parked the helicopter to be refueled.  The FBO had a very cute female driver who took us to a cheap steakhouse (Bonanza? Western Sizzlin'?) for dinner.  Back at the airport we took off for Morgantown.  And the weather got bad again, as the ceiling got lower and lower.  Ahead of us, a gap in the mountains opened up--we swore at the time that it must be the Cumberland Gap, but I don't think that was it--and we flew through it.  Now it started to get dark, and by the time we neared Wheeling, it was dark.  We crossed the Ohio River, flew up the ridgeline to Wheeling-Ohio County Airport, right under the clouds, and landed, got out and thanked our lucky stars (which we could not see).  The FBO drove us into town and picked us up the next morning.
The next day was another weather-problem day, along with the Morgantown NDB being out of service but not on the NOTAMS sheet we checked, and with Baltimore Approach asking us our location when we were in the clouds on radar guidance, and the NDB at Fort Meade, MD, being out of service, but we got into Andrews OK, albeit too late for our bird to be loaded as planned.
Getting in to Wheeling was the biggest relief we had on the whole trip.

Uncle Billy wouldn't recognize the place

My 2Great Grandfather was in "Uncle Billy's" Army when it burned Atlanta then his unit got dethatched and sent North.  When the war ended he was in Eastern Tennessee.  

He was wounded outside of Atlanta and I went to see the battlefield when I was in Atlanta for the Final Four a few years ago (Oden team).