We have been 3 days on the road now, going through Maryland,West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and are now in Bettendorf, Iowa.  Our first day was  spent in the mountains of Maryland and West Virginia, but the rain made it impossible to really appreciate things as we would like.  Every creek and river that we crossed was either high or overflowing its banks.  Here is a pictures of Castleman’s bridge that was  built in 1813 an d was part of the National Road .  (I didn’t know there was a national road.)  Anyway this was the first national road in the country and went from Cumberland, Maryland to St. Louis. The other picture shows you an example of the flooding from all the rain.