Ever closer

So throughout my travels the past couple of days, i have made attempts to find postcards. I love postcards, i like getting them and collecting them. i have a huge stack of them stocked up in one of the bins in my car at the moment from various cross-country trips or visits to various places all over. Haven't been able to find much. I think it's kind of sad that people are obviously much more interested in sending pix messages on their phones or saving up their digital pictures to send via email or post on Flickr. I guess it's a little sad to me. I'll hunt some down and send them anyway.
Little-known fact, West Virginia is nicknamed The Mountain State. Find myself laughing a little at that, but I must admit that I find the Appalachians to be quite beautiful. People talk about how when you come from the Rocky Mountains to the Appalachians, you'll be sorely disappointed because they are just slightly over-glorified hills. When you reach them, that's really what they seem to be as well. Big Hills, yet as you begin to get into them, as the interstate bobs up and down over them, you start to appreciate how amazing they are.
There are certain points in the highway where the road has been cut a good 500 feet down from the crest of the mountain and the cars are dwarfed by the towering rock walls on either side of the road. It's actually quite impressive. The mountains are so thickly wooded that you only occasionally catch a glimpse of the area beyond. Little pieces of farmland where the trees have been cleared to open up pasture, towns that have been built up into the sides of mountains. There's a definite charm to it all.
Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia... Just one more state to go. At this point, I'm eager to get my things out of the back of my car and sleep a lot in my own room. Road tripping across the country has been fun, but i'm ready to get on with things.
The adventure is moving into the next phase.