Heading north into enemy territory (aka Ohio) -- March 19th -- Day 7

We left Lewisburg in freezing rain and headed first south and then west on I-64. First stop was Tamarack, an artists center which bills itself as having "the best of West Virginia" for sale, and in fact does have many lovely artifacts, produced (mostly) by local artisans. While Max shopped I visited the first Starbucks we'd seen since North Carolina--needless to say I was delighted to indulge. From there we went to Charleston where we took a self-guided tour of the WV state capitol building (picture on right, and yes, that's real gold on the dome). It was designed by the same architect who, a few years later, designed the U.S. Supreme Court building, and the WV Supreme Court courtroom (which the bailiff kindly opened for us) was the model for the much larger chambers in DC. From Charleston we proceeded west to Ohio, and soon were driving due north on I-75, stopping for the night in Lancaster, Ohio, where the overnight low was in the twenties and the wind was blowing constantly.  Brrrrr.