Miles: 61.58
Riding Time: 4:18:57
Average Speed: 14.2
Cum. Miles: 2952.80
During today's short ride the four of us actually ended up spending more time off the seat than on the seat from the beginning to the end. We ended up leaving after breakfast around 8ish and didn't arrive until about 5:15. We took the day nice and easy and ended up staying at Kathy's waterstop for a really long time.
We noticed before we actually left the fairgrounds this morning that Ane had a flat tire. The plan was to go to Cogan's again for a group breakfast which was a mile away so we just pumped her tire back up so that it would make it there. For some reason the deal Cogan's worked out with the ALAW was that we could get whatever we wanted off the menu, for 45 people! We ended up probably being the last people to leave the restaurant because when we got outside we had to change Ane's flat tire. Fairly early on into the trip we passed a Mittal Steel and Coke making plant. This plant was huge and at some parts there would be alot of pipeline crossing the road and power plants on both sides. It was quite noisy and seemed a little dirty and passing it just made me think how some people could even work in a place like that everyday.
Once we got to Kathy's waterstop, the other 3 took a small nap on the grass. I guess I had enough coffee or something at breakfast I wasn't all that tired and didn't nap. Eventually we worked our way over to this War Vet Museum in Canfield Ohio. This was a really cool and rather unique museum. It was the oldest house in town, built in 1809 and still sitting on it's original foundation. The museum seemed to be family run and they would let you touch anything that wasn't behind glass, including really old books and newspapers and uniforms. In the basement they had a bunch of model trains they were still working on and one wall was set up to represent Gettysburg and even had a short little video to go with it, which we didn't see. One of the coolest part's of this museum was the fact that everything was donated to them. The museum was 4 floors packed with all kinds of war stuff from all the major wars and every single piece of it was donated.
We eventually had to go to camp because it was starting to get late and we figured dinner was going to be earlier than normal since it was a short day. After dinner I started setting up my tent as per usual ( I am the one in our group of four who would always be the first to get my stuff and set up my tent before anyone else just because I like getting it done, which is why I was called the "responsible" one) and Liz made me stop in the middle of setting up my tent to lay down and relax. She felt it was a major accomplishment to get me to stop and just sit down and relax. Soon after Ben, Andy, Tom and Scott came over and we all just laid out on our sleeping bags and thermal rests talking until it got dark. That was alot of fun and well worth it. Then I set my tent up in the dark and eventually went to sleep.
PICTURES FOR THE DAY!