American Discovery Trail: Last Leg to Ohio

I am on the last West Virginia segment of the American Discovery Trail, still about 34 miles from the Ohio River, which marks the Ohio border with West Virginia. I would make it to Ohio next week except that I am taking two days off from walking this coming week while I attend a bridge tournament near Portland.

My walk this week is along the North Bend Rail Trail, which features 10 tunnels and 37 bridges, so we have pictures of one of each. It is not unusual for the ADT to follow other existing trails for a ways - we have already encountered this and will see plenty more; there were 13 "affiliated" trails in Maryland alone, and four in West Virginia.

I have walked 570 miles so far, over 1.2 million steps.

One of the 37 bridges on the North Bend Rail Trail. On the other side of the bridge is Cairo, West Virginia, pronounced care-oh. That's embarrassing.

When I was very young, we played with marbles. Does anyone do that anymore?

If so, there are glass factories in Ellensboro, WV, and they still make marbles, very nice ones by the look of them.