Kairos Wilderness Campground - 2

Pearsonburg is a small town about 25 miles from Princeton, WV.   As we were driving into town we saw a sign for the Andrew Johnson House and stopped to see about tours.   The research house was open, so stopped in and the lady was very gracious and opened the Andrew Johnson House so we could tour it.   The house had been continuously in the family, so a good deal of the furniture was authentic to the house.   It had been lived in continuously for 5 generations, and some modifications and expansions were made over the years.   Also on the site was a small doctor's office used by both Andrew Johnson and his son.   An addition to the site was a small museum for the area, so we also toured that.  Ate lunch at the DQ and then started back to camp. 

As we got onto Shumate Falls Rd we were stopped, as a tree had fallen across the road.   Called camp and they came down with saws to clear it off the road so we could get back to camp.    Shortly after we got to camp we heard that there had been a much larger mudslide on the same spot, and the Army Corp of Engineers were coming with bigger equipment to clear the road.    The camp owner stopped in to say he didn't know if we'd be able to leave Saturday much before mid afternoon, and if it slid again, we may have to stay several more days.   By now there were just two of us on the mountain.

Saturday morning Jack rode down and saw the road condition and came up and said to pack up we were going to try to get out of the area.   There were several men working on the road, and it was a gooey, watery mess.   Jack got us down the mountain and then proceeded to drive slowly but continuously through the gooey messy road and we breathed a sigh of relief when we hit the highway and headed into Princeton for a quick lunch and then started out for Charleston, WV where we stayed for the night in a Cracker Barrel Parking lot.   I got the impression that the camp owner told Jack it was best to go then, as the forecast was for more heavy rain on Sunday and there could likely be an even bigger slide then.