Great Day for the Ride of Your Life!

Today my sister and I took a lovely trip out to Hocking Hills to scope out the location of her wedding and nearby areas for pictures. After driving through some questionable areas and checking out a park with a very dry lake, we decided to head to Old Man's Cave. We finally found the address on the GPS, popped it on the window and followed our "trusty" friend. We took the road off the highway onto a much smaller back-road... okay, I use to live in the country, a lane and a half road does not bother me too much. But then the road seemed to disappear into what looked like a dirt driveway but the thing told us to go straight. I followed it for a minute and quickly regretted it as we came to a washed out part of the road. I squeezed my car to the side where it was much drier and we cringed as mud splashed up. I mentioned something about turning around but there was no possible way. This "road" was barely wide enough for me to drive on, not to mention to turn around on with the solid woods and cliffs on either side. We kept driving and laughing and nearly crying at the same time as we came to each mini pond and rut in the road. I kept saying that if we were going to die, no one would ever find us in these massive woods and there was not a house in site. There was literally no sign of human life! I clinched on to the steering wheel so hard and prayed at every turn that my little car would make it through the mud and over the holes. At one point we even saw a license plate hanging in a tree! Talk about scary!

Finally, the GPS told us we were coming to the end of the road and we saw a break in the trees and screamed "A REAL ROAD!" at the same time. And the weirdest part of it all, there was actually a stop sign at the end of this thing!! I wish I had taken pictures and had a video of it. I am sure it would be hysterical to listen to us scream every time we came to a plunge and talked about how our lives could so easily end on this desolate path. We were also pretty ticked off that it was considered a road and that it was carried into GPS space! For goodness sakes, the road I live on does not even show up on maps! But we made it through and we made sure the "highway only" box was checked on our trip back home.

But we have a terribly scary story that we will never forget and laugh at until the day we die (which will, Lord willing, be many years later and not today, thank God!) and it was actually a beautiful day for the beautiful country drive... even the scary parts.

I do have one picture to show. This was taken by my sister with her cell phone and it is actually probably one of the past parts of the whole drive.



And I got a couple afterwards of the mud and scratches on my car from the trees.