Blogs from Ohio, United States, North America - page 2

AUGUST 17, 2018 (Friday) The 3:45 alarm clock tells me I had less than 4 hours of sleep. One hour later and we're off to the airport. Check-in went smoothly. I'm soon boarding another American Airlines plane for a flight to Dallas – Fort Worth, TX. At 6:00 the half filled plane is airborne. The passenger in front of my window seat is 3 or 4 years old. A few times, she reached back and touched my leg. I was rather surprised when she placed a Gold fish cracker on my leg... and then another. Ah, such innocence. Breakfast / snack is a cup of Cran-Apple juice and a pack of Biscoff. It is touted as “Europe's Favorite Cookie With Coffee”. After about 90 minutes, we land at DFW. A train takes a loop to the ... read more

Yesterday we spent the entire day visiting with Nates family in Ohio. I truly had a great time, if we lived in Ohio, I think I would have some new family/friends to pal around with. We also started having troubles with the truck the last 2 days, Nates check engine light has come on. Luckily Nates uncle had a code scanner to check the code, they cleared the codes but unfortunately the next day the engine light came back on. Nate believes from the code he will have to replace the spark plugs, which is usually a simple job, but his truck has 16. Not a hard job but time consuming so he has a long workday ahead of him tomorrow once the spark plugs come in. Our new location has no mobile data access making ... read more

We did it! Yesterday after moving to our new campsite, Country Acres Campground & Fun Park (Passport America Campground) we stayed at the campground ALL DAY. Soon after arriving we took the doggies on a walk to explore the campground. Chloe enjoyed the dog park with all its fun ramps, tunnels, and space to run. While Mandy delighted in sniffing the entire dog park, hey she’s 14 so no obstacle courses for her. Nate and Daisy enjoyed all the inflatables: 1 slide, 2 obstacle courses, and 2 jumping pads. They enjoyed it so much Nate got kicked off the jumping pad. That did not hold them down they decided to play basketball for over an hour with all the kids from the campground. The campground also had a talent show that night, a pool, kiddie pool, ... read more

When our daughter selected Ohio University for her graduate studies, I discovered that the Hocking Valley Scenic Railway was located near Athens. It's a preserved tourist railway line between Nelsonville and Logan offering frequent excursions with vintage equipment. Planning for our November visit to Athens, I noted the Hocking Valley would be running a steam locomotive powered special on Saturday, November 6. I had to ride it! The Hocking Valley Scenic Railway operates trackage that was once the Hocking Valley Railroad, connecting Columbus and Athens. The track now ends at Nelsonville. (The Columbus to Logan segment is operated for freight traffic by the regional Indiana & Ohio Railroad.) The steam excursion was to be led by HVSR 3, a Baldwin 0-6-0 built for the Ohio Power Company in 1920. It was a cold morning at the ... read more

9/28/21 We didn’t have that much territory to cover today, so we did not leave the hotel until 8:55. But the real reason is that we are on the far west side of the eastern time zone and it is still dark at 7 AM. So we did not wake up until after 7:30. So, two excuses, you pick one. LOL When we left the hotel it was 67 degrees with a promise of warming into the 80’s. And it did. The plan was to drive east from Sandusky, OH to Cleveland along as much shorefront as possible. We took to Rt 6 with became 6 and 20. And we drove through many small towns along Lake Erie. The first was Vermillion. And what a cute town this was. Their little downtown area is lined with ... read more