Monday, June 1, 2015

Monday night in Portsmouth, OH. Tomorrow, Kentucky and Tennessee, if the doggone rain will give us a break.
If we get more rain, we'll turn east and look for a faster,  straighter way home.
In between rains, today was a terrific day.
We went over to a Titusville park to photogtaph an oil well replica to prove we were really here.
We didn't go to the Drake museum.
On the way, we stumbled across a plaque noting that (John?) Heisman was from Titusville. Grat coach, apparently has a little award named after him.
Then we found a plaque noting that (Someone) Tarbell, Abraham Lincoln's biographer, was from Titusville.
Motoring through Franklin, just down the road, we found a plaque saying the real Johnny Appleseed (Chapman, I think ) once lived there.
Then we discovered we were less than 20 miles from THE NFL HALL OF FAME. Yeah, we detoured over to Canton.
What a fascinating place.  The memorabilia alone is worth the price of admission. But, wow, the hall with busts of all the inductees is much more than I expected.
Heading south from there,  we passed through Lancaster, OH -- a beautiful town.
Seems like we stumble across one of those every day since we left northern Ontario.

Observations
--At dinner. we found our waiter has family in Texas... a sister in Tyler. Then we found he grew up on Silver Falls Rd in Longview, very near Terry's former residence.
Cody works at a locally-owned pizza place, PaulsPizza, that offers calzone with buttery, flaky crust. Good stuff.
-- My riding suit was stronger than today's rain. You can't believe how happy I am to say that.
--There are many places to go barefoot.  A $58 motel room is not one of them.

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