The Traveling 3some - Day 9 - From Indianapolis, Indiana to Springfield, Ohio to Chillicothe to Seip Earthworks to Serpent Mound to Charlestown, West Virginia

October 15 - 392 miles - 36.3mpg

On the road this morning early.  After a free belly busting breakfast, that is. Pam kept gritching that it's 3 hours earlier back home and she's sleeeeepy💤💤. Our first stop today - 145 miles away from our hotel - to visit our second Frank Lloyd Wright house - Wescott House.  

The Wescott home with 4,000 square foot of liveable space was restored from its sadly deteriorated state at a cost of $5.8 million several years ago. Only two rooms are furnished with Wright original, or reproduction furniture - coincidentally the house is also located in Springfield, but in this case Springfield, Ohio.

The dining room

The reception room

2,000 years ago, long before Chris Columbus, a thriving and advanced civilization of the mound builders existed in what is now central Ohio. Their massive earthen structures, one complex was as large as 127 acres, whereas Vatican City is but 117 acres, incorporated sophisticated mathematical and astronomical components. There are multiple complexes. Enormous amounts of labor and engineering skill involved.

The start of a walk amongst the mounds - but do NOT walk on the mounds themselves. 

Lots of Amish families on the road today.

Cricket is ready to catch some serpents:

There is always a gift shop full of temptations.

Norm succumbed...

Not sure if this is their normal garb but they sure dressed the part, including the face paint and tattoos.

Along our route, we stopped in Portsmouth, Ohio to view the 1/2 mile stretch of murals painted on the town's flood wall.   The town came up with this idea to beautify the concrete wall by turning it into art.  Starting in 1993, international artist Robert Dafford painted large sections of the wall with murals/pictures that depict the last two centuries of Portsmouth's history. Many of the murals are 3-D and it feels as though you can "step into" them. There are currently 55 murals - 20 feet high and over 2,200 feet long.  He's been working on the murals for the past 10 years.

Portsmouth was the childhood home of Roy Rogers so he's in a few of the murals.

They really get into the seasonal decorations!

We arrived at our hotel in Charleston, West Virginia at 7:45pm in balmy 70 degrees.  Ahhhhh...the spa was so soothing.