Yesterday we met Judy's sister & BIL for dinner. MaryLou & Sam were driving south to make some withdrawals from a couple casinos & Visit their daughter, Diane, & her family. We had a nice visit with them over dinner at Bob Evans.
Today we took a 5 or 6 hours drive along the Miami Erie Canal. Did you know there was a canal from Toledo (Lake Erie) and Cincinnati (Ohio River)? We didn't. It was dug from 1825 to 1845; in 1850 it was pretty much replaced by the railroads.
We also visited the Bicycle Museum of America in New Bremen. They have an 1816 wooden bike, police bike with siren & lights, Gene Autry bike, Pee Wee Herman's bike, a 109 mph speed record holding bike, big wheeled bikes from the late 1800s, a Wright Brothers bike....you name it....they have it. The most expensive was $103K for a custom bike built about 1890 for the founder of Schwinn, his wife & their child.
We stopped in Fort Recovery at the memorial for the soldiers killed by Indians in 1791. We all know about General Custer's defeat in 1876 by Sitting Bull at the Little Bighorn. There were 258 killed & 52 wounded but at Fort Recovery and General St Clair's disastrous battle at the Wabash River over 900 soldiers were killed and wounded. 250 women with the soldiers were either killed or kidnapped. That's a lot more than George lost but I never knew this!!
Today we took a 5 or 6 hours drive along the Miami Erie Canal. Did you know there was a canal from Toledo (Lake Erie) and Cincinnati (Ohio River)? We didn't. It was dug from 1825 to 1845; in 1850 it was pretty much replaced by the railroads.
We also visited the Bicycle Museum of America in New Bremen. They have an 1816 wooden bike, police bike with siren & lights, Gene Autry bike, Pee Wee Herman's bike, a 109 mph speed record holding bike, big wheeled bikes from the late 1800s, a Wright Brothers bike....you name it....they have it. The most expensive was $103K for a custom bike built about 1890 for the founder of Schwinn, his wife & their child.
We stopped in Fort Recovery at the memorial for the soldiers killed by Indians in 1791. We all know about General Custer's defeat in 1876 by Sitting Bull at the Little Bighorn. There were 258 killed & 52 wounded but at Fort Recovery and General St Clair's disastrous battle at the Wabash River over 900 soldiers were killed and wounded. 250 women with the soldiers were either killed or kidnapped. That's a lot more than George lost but I never knew this!!
