SlowBro's Blog Posts

Day Three- Green, OH

16 miles- The year was 1898 and a guy named Frank Seiberling opened a company that made poker chips, horseshoe pads, and carriage and bicycle tires. He named the company after the long dead...

Day Two-Mogadore Res.

21 miles- Up at 4AM to pack up and make breakfast for a 5AM start. It was a 2.4 mile walk into the campground from the road yesterday, so, unsurprisingly, it was a 2.4...

Day One-West Branch SP

18 miles. I will start with yesterday, wherein my cousin and his wife hosted a family reunion. A gathering of the living cousins on my Dad’s side of the family, along with spouses and...

Ohio

Greetings from Ohio! Named after the river that the Iroquois called “ohi-yo” meaning “the great river.” The area has been inhabited for the last 12,000 years. First by the Paleo-Peoples who likely followed the...

A Different Kind of Trek

The Buckeye Trail (BT) is over 1,400 miles in length, completely circumnavigating the state of Ohio. That is impressive, but mostly I just wanted to use the word “circumnavigating” in a sentence, and now...