SlowBro's Blog Posts

Day Nine- Solon, OH

17 miles- 1868, 1883. 1887, 1912, 1922, 1936, 1941, 1948, 1952, and 1969 were the years that we are sure the Cuyahoga River caught fire. There are probably others, but they weren’t recorded. I...

Day Eight- Ottawa CG

Pleasant night at the Heritage Farm CG. Up at 6:15 to a pretty sunrise and then I walked the half mile to the Peninsula Coffee Shop for breakfast. (I know, tough life.) When I...

Day Seven-Peninsula

16 miles- Two geological events set the stage for my blog today. About 350 million years ago a great river flowed out of what is now eastern Canada. The silt it carried settled into...

Day Six- Akron zero

0 miles-Today was a “zero miles walked on the trail” day. Instead I spent much of the day touring the Seiberling Estate about a mile and a half from here. You may recall that...

Day Five-Akron

18miles- The rain yesterday finally let up a little after 8PM. Over all I was hiking and or camping in the rain for more than 12 hours. Fortunately it wasn’t raining this morning when...

Day Four- Canal Fulton

21 miles- In 1817 a canal was started to connect the Hudson River with Lake Erie. Known as the Erie Canal, it opened in 1825 and immediately increased commerce and the fortunes of those...