It's now Sunday and I sat home all day and caught up with life. The mail pile isn't as large as it used to be. Neither are the amount bills in the pile. Auto bill pay is a wonderful thing.
Friday we didn't do too much. It was unwind, unpack, and get ready to go home day. I took two walks in the hood.
Saturday we were on the road by 6:15 am, and headed to Covington, Ky. for a Volkssport border crossing. The check in was at a Hampton Hotel. As always, the desk clerk was nice, and handed us the box. Since breakfast was being served, we stayed away from the guests and found a spot to do our paperwork.
The instruction were good, but hard to read. It looked like a copy of a copy of an inkjet. But it was readable. The map was not. It was small and copied so often that few if any of the street names showed.
We headed out. It wasn't the nicest neighborhood. Lots of hotels and lots of industry. Eventually were got to an area with more hotels and a more downtown feel. It even included a convention center. The instructions said to turn left and go thru the flood gates. We did. There was the skyline of Cincinnati. With the Bengal's stadium on one side of the bridge, and the Reds on the other.
The whole time I am on the riverfront, the theme song from WKRP in Cincinnati is stuck in my head. We turned to walk along the river to the bridge. The river side of the flood wall was a massive mural. Probably twenty panels. Amazing. A man running with his dog said if you like these, you should see the mural project downtown. And he whipped out his phone and showed us. We asked how far. "He said not far. Only about 10 blocks after you cross the bridge." Just go to the library. ANd they were off.
We only did the 7K so we didn't cross all the bridges in the walk. The one I really wanted to do was the Purple People Easter pedestrian bridge. But that was the furthermost away.
About 3/4 the way across the bridge and we look down at the most amazing kids-park ever. Trex Lincoln logs piled up to climb on. A fishnet bridge over a little creek. The coolest stuff ever. We were talking about taking the stairs down and wondering how we could get back out and not have to backtrack to the bridge. A man below told us! so down we went. We checked out the kids park and decided to see what was on the other side. It was an OUTDOOR GYM. In a public Park.
This bird like item, someone crawls inside to provide resistance and then several people can pull down on his wings for an upper body workout. There were elliptical climbers, poles, all kinds of things to work with.
It was not that standard fitness course found in Lehigh Valley Parks. This was a whole other lever of fitness. I think it's something I would actually do. It didn't, for the most part, require super human strength, and flexibility. I was sweating after trying out the stuff.
We returned to the main street and followed the instructions for a
while. Using the maps on the street corners to guide us. Bonnie was
beat, her knee was hurting, so we decided to bring the car back to look
at the murals.
It took awhile to figure out how to get on the bridge with the car. Ultimately we did. And headed to the library.
It was worth the trip. The meter was expensive. $2.25 for an hour. We only had a half hour of quarters. And we really didn't have time to explore more. We had to get home. We chose 2 x 2 blocks. In that small space we saw 6. There are 102 in 36 neighborhoods. Check them out at Artworks Cincinnati. As a bonus I found a couple of terrific ghost signs.
While walking the 2 block square we came across these signs for a 1-2-3 mile route. Clearly Cincinnati is serious about getting healthy!
It was nearly 12:30 and we hadn't left Cincinnati yet. That's most of the drive left to go.
This cicada hung on from St. Claresville, Ohio to Washington, Pa. He waved. He rolled over. He did stupid insect tricks. Finally the 70mph car and the wind speed got the best of him and he blew off. He probably got tired of hanging on. He was there so long we named him Syd.
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