Along with discussing driving, weather, bike clubs and The View at the Hermitage, we also talked a little bit about West Virginia. The bikers were just passing through on their way north for Memorial Day weekend, so none of us had really spent any significant amount of time in the state before. One woman asked a question that I think a lot people in the United States might ask about West Virginia: “I mean, we’re driving through these little towns, there are like two streets, I don’t see any companies or anything- what do these people do??”
I found three examples (four if you count “run the Hermitage Inn”) that provide an interesting, and possibly surprising, cross section.
