Chris met up with me in Cambridge city, and we headed east towards Ohio!
On our way out of town, we saw a pretty cool model railroad setup, and talked to one of the guys who helped maintain it
In Richmond, IN we got chased by a pack of 10-15 dogs. When a few of them started nipping at my panniers and sandals, I employed the “squirt them in the face with my water bottle” tactic to great success
We had a pretty easy ride to our brother Michael’s place outside of Dayton – lots of gentle rolling hills through country backgrounds, very little traffic
Picked up the bike trail network outside of Dayton and started seeing a ton of other cyclists
Stayed at a cool trailside campsite in London, and met another eastbound tourist! Mike left San Francisco a few weeks before I started, and is heading to Long Island! He’s riding solo at the spry young age of 61! We rode with him for a good amount, swapping stories
Had a pretty smooth ride into Westerville to meet up with our aunt and uncle. We made plans to come back in a few weeks to ride the last final TOSRV (Tour of the Scioto River valley) ride – Uncle Jim has been doing that ride for over thirty years!
Chris had been plagued by flats, so he picked up some beefier tires. Then, the next morning, it was my turn to have flat tire woes: two tube swaps before we made it half a block!
More great riding on the Ohio to Erie trail – had savory and sweet kolache for second breakfast
Camped outside of Millersburg at a campsite that was up (and down) a huge, steep gravel hill – too steep even for my touring bike to get traction, so we had to end the long day with a bit of hike a bike
Had lunch on the final day at the Dutch kitchen – all you can eat buffet with tons of desserts!
More great trail and backroads riding to get us to our great-nieces birthday party – ice cream cake!
The adventure will continue at the end of October – Alice and I will be riding from Akron to DC via Shenandoah!
