Our route in Ohio.
Thousand Trails Wilmington and a cook out.
Go figure, but in the middle of Clinton County,
is the world's largest horseshoe crab!
We had to go see for ourselves.
Dennis and Sharon Miller.
Phil and the pups at their home in Eaton.
We met Phil and Sharon at Lazy Days RV in 2004
when we bought nearly identical motor homes.
We have traded visits since.
They both play a mean game of euchre.
Charles Young Buffalo Soldier National Monument,
our 322nd official National Park Service area visited.
Corn and beans everywhere.
This is a great summer for crops here and we have been taking advantage
of it by eating terrific local produce from apples to zucchini.
David Berger National Memorial (#323)
David was one of the 11 Israeli athletes murdered
at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Germany.
Thousand Trails Kenisee Lake in Ashtabula County
(northeastern Ohio).
Great site, park, and entertainment.
All of the locations we toured from here are
part of the Western Reserve.
That portion of the country was once part of Connecticut
(from King Charles)
and extended to the Pacific Ocean.
After the Revolutionary War, CT ceded most of the land
to the US, but kept the lake front property that includes Cleveland.
The National Park Service is considering making the area a
National Heritage Area.
There are lots of covered bridges in the county to find and view.
We saw about half of them.
We made sure to see the USA's smallest in Geneva.
One with an accessible river to wade.
And the USA's longest in Plymouth Center.
It was dedicated in 2008, has a 613 foot span, is 93 feet
above the Ashtabula River, and has a life expectancy of 100 years.
In the Ashtabula River.
At the marina in Conneaut with the lighthouse
at the harbor's entrance.
In Lake Erie at a Conneaut Township park.
Ashtabula lighthouse at the harbor entrance.
Lakeshore Park Pavilion. Largest on the lake.
It was empty this week day, but a return trip for a
sunset found the park full of classic cars and people.
Ashtabula lift bridge and harbor.
James A. Garfield's birthplace in Moreland Hills.
He was the last of the "log cabin" presidents.
The cabin and this statue are on the
grounds of the local police department.
James Garfield's memorial and tomb is in
Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland.
This Memorial is the tallest one for all of the presidents, but not the largest.
That largest is Grant's tomb.
View from second floor balcony.
McKinley Birthplace Home and Research Center in Niles.
National McKinley Memorial, Museum, and Free Public Library.
The docent from the birthplace walked us from the birthplace,
opened the door, then left us on our own to tour the museum.
Warren, Ohio area. Home of the Packard, millionaires row,
and just up the road, the first Civil War memorial.
As the sun sinks slowly in the west, we head east toward the
Allegheny National Recreation Area (http://www.fs.usda.gov/allegheny),
the Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania,
and Hershey Thousand Trails.
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