Today was one of those high challenge days that you seem to run into every so often on a long bike trip. It wasn’t the mileage- 60 and change/ about 110 kilometers. It wasn’t the hills, as there pretty much were none. It wasn’t even being routed onto a non-existent bike path, as I was able to recover from that without having gone too far out of my way. Continue reading
Month: August 2018
Why I Didn’t Stay at Krodel Park
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Sixth Day on the Ohio – Forked Run State Park Campground, Ohio to Kanauga, Ohio
My goal in riding today was to make it the 60 miles/100 kilometers or so to Krodel Park Campground in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. I expected a hilly ramble on a very minor road, Ohio State Route 124, right up along the bank of the river to the town of Pomeroy, then a ride across a bridge to West Virginia with the last 15 miles/25 kilometers or so completed in that state.
I couldn’t have been more wrong. Continue reading
Fourth Day on the Ohio – Powhatan Point, Ohio to Washington County Fairgrounds Campground, Marietta, Ohio
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Third day on the Ohio – Kennedy Marina, West Virginia to Powhatan Point, Ohio
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Why the Rest/Slack Days?
Today I didn’t do much of anything except hang out at a picnic table watching the Ohio River go by on a planned rest/slack day.
First Day on the Ohio – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Kennedy Marina, West Virginia
So I’ll start my “catching up the blog” extravaganza on my rest/slack day at Kennedy Marina campground with an easy one – what I did yesterday. That way I can get away without looking at my notes. Always good to ease into this sort of thing. Continue reading
Down the Ohio River – It Begins
On August 20th I reached Point State Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which celebrates the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers to form the Ohio River.
Big City Bicycling
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