American Discovery Trail: 10%

A long time after I started, I am 10% of the way along the American Discovery Trail, or I will be when I walk one more mile tonight. I still have a few weeks to go in West Virginia, but I will get to 500 miles in the next few days, and this is progress.

The International Mother's Day Shrine is in Grafton, West Virginia, where Anna Jarvis came up with the idea of celebrating Mother's Day, and the day was first celebrated in 1908.

To give some idea of how well-maintained the American Discovery Trail main website is, the description of this trail segment says that the next stop is Spetler, West Virginia. Thing is though, the town is actually called Spelter , not Spetler. I am guessing that that mistake has been there a long time, and no one has cared enough to proofread the site and fix it. It makes me wonder how legitimate this trail is.

I have a picture of Spelter, but I am not that far along yet, so that is for next week. Since the Mother's Day Shrine is the only landmark mentioned on the part of the trail I walked this week, my second picture is from Africa. It looks like a good place to visit someday.