Average September Sunday

Around town, it can be hard to find easy geocaches and some days I just don’t want to be pushing myself to climb a hill or walk several miles. Luckily, the Daughters of the American Revolution placed two relatively easy new caches in the area. On this cool Sunday morning, we helped ourselves to Fort Pierpont.

While retrieving the cache on a perfect, cloudless (though quite breezy) day the evidence that cooler weather was headed in was clear. And being beat from the adventures in the coalfields from the prior day, the desire to huff it up a mountain just was not going to do it for us. Besides, we had bingo plans for later.

We hit the road for Point Marion. While Point Marion is actually very close to Morgantown, we never get up there. Being on U.S. Route 119 it is only ever traveled through when seeking an adventure, because to get to Pittsburgh I-79 is faster and to get to Uniontown the Mon-Fayette is much faster. But we keep hearing that our lives will not be complete until we try Apple Annie’s. We will get around to it, I swear.

Windows down, music playing, the drive was divine. Even when it began to lightly sprinkle as we passed over the Monongahela River and took the back roads to wind back around by the Longview Power Plant (and the signs of protest that’ve been there for 20-odd years) and the west side of Morgantown.

Early afternoon we headed over to the Mountain State Brewing Company for bingo. Each Sunday they have Team Bingo, which is an awesome way to spend a few hours with friends. In the past, we’ve done well here, sometimes winning over half of the rounds. Today, we did not fare so well, winning nothing—except the pleasure of the company of good friends over tasty food (I swear, their home-made root beer is the best). During the cold, cold winter Sundays, I feel like I’m going to be spending a lot of time here.