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Day 2: December 22, 2023 Return to Koolwink Comment via blog |
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I spent the longest night of the year at the
Lafayette
Hotel beside a very calm Ohio River with West Virginia on the other
side. It wasn't in one of the fancy balcony rooms but in
something a bit more modest.
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It wasn't long before I was entering West Virginia myself on a bridge
several miles upstream from the one in view of the Lafayette.
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Driving US-50 in these parts is sure a lot of fun and doing it today
definitely boosted my long time desire to drive the route end-to-end.
There are plenty of curves both east and west of
Cool Springs
Park which isn't looking quite as good as it did
a dozen years ago.
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When you leave late and follow wiggly roads, it's easy to spend the whole
day getting to your motel. The Koolwink Motel was a real lifesaver on an eastbound
night in 2011 and I've wanted to return ever since. Not all of the signs
and decorations were lit when I checked in but they were when I returned
from dinner. Snapping those pictures involved getting chilled a bit but
my room was warm and welcoming.
The Koolwink began its professional life in 1936 as a tourist home renting upstairs rooms in a dwelling that still houses the owner although the former living room is now the office. A pair of cabins that the original owner added for more rental space also remain but they have been combined into a multi-room unit. The current owner's father-in-law bought the place in 1955 (He went to the auction to buy a grill and ended up with the motel -- and the grill.) and added the building I'm in sometime later. |
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