Charleston, WV. It was one of those pesky capitals to memorize, and I never thought I would be spending a night downtown here. It is a little over halfway to Charlotte, we are settled down for the night, and I am wondering what to blog about. Now I look back on the fact that we did a lot of wondering today. Curiosity can be a good thing, sometimes I wish I had more of it. It often leads to interesting things. When we were young we were all told that it killed the cat, right? Now I am wondering if I have ever told anyone that myself. Curiosity killed the cat. Apparently I was quite sensitive to cat analogies when I was little. I was told that I once burst into tears upon hearing the phrase, "There is more than one way to skin a cat." I suppose that would be the cat whose untimely death was the direct result of curiosity.

But today as we headed south from the Dayton area (after a stop at Tim Horton's, of course!) we were on roads we had not seen before. We wondered what this part of Ohio will look like...Will it become hilly like Kentucky? After a failed phone conversation attempt with Megan we wondered when we would get a better signal. We wondered why the Wal-mart line we chose went so much slower than any of the others. I wondered why none of the drivers in the parking lot would let me cross in the rain to the cart return.

We wondered why an interstate would suddenly become a 2 lane highway, and then suddenly an interstate again. Why did they spell Five Mile Road and Nine Mile Road as if they were one word: Fivemile and Ninemile. Why is this little town here, what were the buildings originally built to be. Are any of them still conducting the same business as the day the first coat of paint dried. Just curious.

A big curiosity plagued us for miles in Ohio. There are so many signs for Washington CH. Surely as we got closer to this place a sign would tell us what the initials are for. Just because Washington DC has initials, does this Washington need them too? Desperate, we resorted to making guesses. One of my guesses turned out to be right, and it was not Cat Hospital. Oh, no. I am not telling. I had to wait all afternoon to look it up, you can look it up right now.

Now we wonder what tomorrow will bring as we arrive at Charlotte. So much preparation has gone into this trip (reading, for example), and we are eager to start the next part of the Sabbatical. After a night of rest here in Charleston.

Now I wonder how many different ways I just used the word "wonder." Our language often gets muddied as we change the meanings of words, or use words incorrectly. It makes me want to look in the Psalms to be reminded of the use of this word as one that points us to God. That is always wonderful.