Fallout 76 through WV and Falling Waters in western PA

Today we started a new adventure which will take us not too far from home but will last 2 weeks.

The planning started with the desire to finally, after 25 years living in Pennsylvania, to visit Frank Lloyd Wrights Falling Waters in the western part of the state.

The rest of the trip planning started started off more or less as a family joke, but on closer inspection, took on more serious possibilities for a trip theme.

Finding the locations in Bethesda Games Fallout 76

Like many families today, we are spread out. Our family spans two provinces and two countries. Covid-19 restricted travel, but online services kept us together. We are a family of game players, both the family variety and the video game variety.

For well over a year now, two daughters, a son-in-law and me have been playing an interactive, cooperative, online video game called Fallout 76 produced by Bethesda Games. The game takes place in post-apocalyptic West Virginia (and yes weapons and enemies are involved). Gameplay includes quests, travel and setting up campsites around WV in many locations that exist in real life and also incorporates its rather strange folk lore and monsters. The art work in the game is spectacular.

Jokingly over a glass of wine, I suggested to my husband that we should find the places in West Virginia in real life that we have all been spending a rather lengthy amount of time visiting in the game. He enthusiastically accepted the challenge to plan our route ( he doesn’t play).

It turns out that WV has some very cool and somewhat unusual places to visit. This should be a lot of fun. So follow us from civil war historic sites through beautiful gardens, exclusive golf clubs (just passing through), bridges, railroads, coal mines and giant teapots. Maybe even a monster or two. WV folklore is full of them.