11.) Don’t trust the tap water. There’s a reason why Mountain Dew mouth is a huge issue there. Drink bottled or filtered water.
Well, that’s something.
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- ) Don’t ask the waitress to change the news channel.
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Now that is just basic personal safety!
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We thought about doing this while visiting the Dolly Sods area about two years ago. Little diner slash motel ringed by flagged motorcycles and pickup trucks with Farm Use painted on them. Seeing that we were having them cook our breakfast it was decided that we would not to go down that path. Delightful eggs and sausage despite FoxNews blaring.
Dolly Sods is definitely a do not a don’t.
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8) Don’t always expect to have cell service
Uh, isn’t that true everywhere?
Oh, man, what a reminder. On my last work trip before the pandemic, I was at a hotel down there that had TVs at the breakfast tables (along the wall). Blaring FOX “news”, couldn’t change the channel. I turned it off on the monitor, and it kept coming back on like in some Stephen King book about the machines coming to life. I eventually disconnected the hdmi hookup. Fucking hell. Maybe worth it for a mom & pop diner breakfast, but not for a blah hotel breakfast buffet!
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Living in New England I haven’t worried about not having cell service in probably a decade. Although I don’t go to the very remote parts of Maine, so can’t speak to that.
The non-Appalachian way is appellation per wine.
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The video seems just a touch padded. Even if I somehow didn’t know the name of the place I was visiting, I don’t think it takes three minutes to resolve that problem.
They legit could have just narrowed it down to 1 don’t: Because it’s West Virginia. John Denver was WAY off on the “almost heaven” part.
I would like to visit the state so I can enjoy all the museums devoted to its militant coal miner labour history.
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Apple-ay-shun is the closest to the french pronunciation, which is used here in Canada, for obvious reasons. For reasons unique to the United States, distortion of french origin words seems to be a fun game. Narlins. Cajun (Acadian). Apple-latch-uh.
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Amen. As a native of NE Pennsylvania, we talked plenty about the Poconos, but the only time we really said (app-uh-LAY-shuh) was in reference to the Trail of said name.
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phrasing.
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“Barre, VT”, pronounced “Barry”, is a favorite of mine
Just like to chime in from up north, that I grew up near the small town Apalachin, NY, disproportionately famous for the Apalachin meeting - Wikipedia, and that’s pronounced AP-ə-LAY-kin
And has nothing to do with West Virginia, but I thought I’d come in an add to the general confusion.
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Crud. It looks like the Whipple Company Store is now closed. It was a really good one.
The museum at the state house used to cover it very well. I haven’t been in a while, so I don’t know if they are shying away from it yet or not. There are several other museums that cover it too. The Exhibition Coal Mine in Beckley and the Thurmond National Park kind of touch on it.
But yeah, a lot of people in West Virginia right now don’t want to be reminded that REAL Coal Miners were UNION- and Democrat on the way to Socialist.
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Not a don’t.
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Maybe it’s just one of those “coast to coast, LA to Chicago” geographic quirks that you just need to accept as fact.
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