Gorge-ous!

By the fall, I was getting worn out and needed to escape. Still, where do you go with a pandemic raging, no cure, and no vaccine? Well, the middle of West Virginia sounded remote enough to be safe, and the possibility of seeing the changing leaves was enough of a draw to get us out of our house. In fact, Jim's sister also needed a break and joined us. We rented a cabin near New River Gorge National Scenic River (well--it was at the time; now it's a National Park!) On our first day after travel, we headed to the visitor center to get our bearings and, of course, my stamps.

You may recall this post from last summer—it was the last of my guest designer spots. The post provides details on the layout.

To better view the bridge, follow the boardwalk behind the visitor center. It is 178 steps down (and back up!) It was much more crowded than I thought it would be for a mid-week October visit. Then again, it was near Columbus Day, so many people had the same idea. So, that meant masks as we did the walk.

I wanted to use the paper from Scrapbook Customs featuring the bridge photo. I made that the left side of a layout. The right side is the 8 1/2 x 11 pocket page where I added the information sheet on the bridge. I folded it to see the best of the highlights. I matted our photos so they would pop from the page.

For the final pages on the boardwalk trail, I turned to a set of pages I had made at one of the Paper Loft classes at the Lancaster Scrapbook Convention. I carefully restructured the left page to retain many of the original elements but trimmed it to 8 1/2 x 11 to fit the pocket page. I felt rather proud of myself for figuring that out!