Yesterday was a rainy day off in Columbus, Ohio. We figured out city buses to ride to an REI, where Sharon and I bought new rain pants. The inner lining of my 15 year old pair was flaking off, leaving a trail of goretex dandruff and not doing much to keep me dry. If we get no more rain on the trip, we plan to take credit and bill the others for keeping them dry.
Today we started in a cool mist, but no rain, and we had nice sunshine by the end of the day. We rode 46 miles, mostly on trails, to Mount Vernon, Ohio. We had expected to have longer stretches on roads, but we met a local rider who advised us that more of the trail was open than we had expected.
After two days of heavy rains, the creeks we riding along were more like rivers.
We encountered this marvelous playground structure at a park near the trail. The kids are climbing a little wall and ropes inside the tower, then would come sliding down.
This stretch of trail wasn’t completed a week ago when our local guide had ridden out to it. We did have to ride around yellow tape to get on and it felt a little sticky, but it was very rideable.
We had lunch at a park at the geographic center of the state.
Girders from an old Pittsburgh Plate Glass plant now an outdoor sculpture.
Mount Vernon features this whimsical fountain and a great custard stand. Hope wanted to take a picture of us eating our treats, but we pretty much polished them off before she came out.
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