Rick, if they like, I'm available as a stopping place for dinner, free sleeping accomodations, visiting, and/or emergencies. If you don't have it, PM me for my phone number, at least; it's always good to have for emergencies. Yeah, the Warther Museum in Dover, Ohio is well worth seeing, and it's not so huge that you have to lose a day's driving time to see it. My route for my annual trip to the Bristol Area (it's actually in both states. Really) is to go down I-77 through West Virginia. Beautiful scenery. If you go, the "Tamarak" Art Center has nice, but hugely expensive art, folk and otherwise. It does have the saving grace of looking like Cleopatra, the African Strangler plant on the Addams Family TV series from the 1960's. This will drop you onto I-81 in western Virginia. I'd recommend stopping for a bit at Dixie Pottery in Abingdon, Virginia; a truly strange amalgam of neat stuff and kitsch from good ronware for your kitchen and good stick candy to those ceramic plant stands shaped like an elephant that my elderly relatives used to like. Bristol is close to Johnson City, Tenn., home of the Pickin' Parlor, just Tucker's type of place. The Fox Motel is inexpensive, run by a nice Indian couple. And then there's Jonesborough, Tenn., home of the National Storytelling Association (or whatever they're calling it this week *g*), and several nifty shops. Steve in the glass shop and Gary in Jonesborough Pottery are musicians. Tell them I said "hi", if you stop by. Safe journey to them, Mary Hermance