New River Gorge National Park II

Reading this week: Dark Voyage: An American Privateer’s War on Britain’s African Slave Trafe by Christian McBurney The central irony of the New River is that of course it is one of the oldest rivers. They explain this is the lovely video in the visitor’s center, though in the video they, for inexplicably humble reasons, like to emphasize it was really the Teays. Then again as I have pointed on this blog before in deference to Heraclitus, how old can any river be if no man can step in the same river twice? From the balcony of the Cathedral Café We pondered this as we arrived for breakfast at the Cathedral Café (they did not use the website’s tagline “feeding your mind, body, & soul” anywhere in the restaurant itself as far as I can recall, but it is a good one). Tell you what if you are going to go, go early. That line was way out the door even by the time we left. I guess given how early the river itself appeared on the geological landscape, it makes sense that the overall theme of…