Ladee's Travels

There is nothing better than a guided tour along the Monongahela River with Captain TK.  Delightful views and stories about the river. The ducks are floating in the river because our hostess Nellie chased them off of the property.  View as we pulled away from the dock in Stockdale.  Hostess Nellie is ready and in charge.  Captain TK is behind the wheel and First Mate Jim is preparing the boat.  View of homes along the river around Stockdale.  Old factories line the river.  Some continue to produce.  This is Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel Company in Allenport. The business is in scrap, finished products, and fuel oil. The front wall is concrete.  We think that these heavy concrete pillars were used to tie up barges as they waited to be taken to their destination. This is the Welland Chemical plant in Newell.  The production is in sulphur and acid.  The facility is inactive and has wooden icebreakers and 4 ...

Ohiopyle State Park is at the southern end of the Laurel Ridge.  The Falls are on the Youghiogheny [yaw-ki-gay-nee] River Gorge and are the centerpiece for Ohiopyle.  The "Yough" [yawk] has some of the best white water boating in the eastern United States.  The Park offers bicycling, mountain biking, rock climbing, horseback riding, fishing, hunting, picnicking, white water boating, and wildlife watching.  Sledding and snowmobiling are also available, weather permitting. This is a panoramic of the Falls area.  There are multiple deck layers providing great viewing areas.  Ohiopyle Falls, Ohiopyle State Park, PA - 2014  I saw this sign in the planter. It explains that The Yough flows north and carries seeds from the south.  The area has conditions that allow the seeds to take hold, and you will see plants in this area that you cannot see around other areas in PA.   Little cones.  Mom said that this has alread...

These photographs were taken as we drove from Jumonville to Ohiopyle. We left Jumonvilled and stopped at the flashing red light intersection on the Summit. Here is the Summit Hotel at, yes you guessed it, the summit. I took this though the window, grabbed the camera and clicked.  This is a mild warning about the Dangerous Mountain Road ahead. We drove in to Kentuk Knob, the location of a Frank Lloyd Wright home, to see what we could see but we couldn't see much for free.  We didn't have time to tour the house but did see an incredible unexplained tree.  This is just off of Kentuk Road. These types of fences are typical in Pennsylvania. The mist rising off of a pond in Chalk Hill.  Stone barn with a glazed tile silo along "Chalk Hill Ohiopyle Road".   The road turned in to Kentuck Road and stopped at Farmington Ohiopyle Road, Route 381.  The road becomes Water Street in Ohiopyle.   After Ohiopyle, we were finding...