Country Road Trip: To West Virginia and Back
Spring is road trip season, and last Friday I took off on a drive from Philadelphia to Morgantown, West Virginia, to visit my sis. She moved there earlier this year to undertake a year-long dietary internship, and her love for her adopted home town knows no bounds. West Virginia gets a bad rap, especially among I-95-corridor types. (Cue the jokes--some of which I've admittedly made myself--about banjo music, meth labs, and having a purty mouth.) My sister was eager to show me what Morgantown, West Virginia is really like: a funky college town surrounded by some truly gorgeous countryside. A neat rail-to trail path wends along the Monongahela River. The city is home to a number of intriguing restaurants, homey brew pubs, lots of live music (including bluegrass, of course), and a charming little place called Blue Moose Coffee where we had Sunday morning quiche. Best of all, the city's just down the road apiece from the Fiestaware Facto...