Leaving Ohio Behind

07/21/09 - Another day of favorable wind. We got about 65 miles in today and are now in a motel in Bowling Green Ohio. It was pretty hot today and I don’t know if that was the problem, or not drinking enough water yesterday, or possibly not eating enough today, but for some reason we both hit the wall at about 3:00 this afternoon. I felt pretty wrung out and didn’t really want to deal with camping, and Marc wasn’t arguing with me so we got a room. We were lucky to get a room, and we may not have been able to get a campsite anyway because there is a huge RV exhibition going on in Bowling Green. We got the last room at the Knights Inn. Then we immediately went next door to Subway and ate a huge sandwich. I feel pretty normal now. We are spending the night tonight trying to find a route from here to Freeland MI. Tomorrow morning we leave the Adventure Cycling Association route and start heading north. We don’t really have a map, so we’re not exactly sure where we are going , but we know we’re going north. And we know that it will take at least two days. So that means that, best case scenario, we will finish up on Thursday afternoon. It could be Friday though, but even that is better than what we though we’d manage a few days ago. We were kind of thinking we might have to ride right to the memorial on Saturday, which would have saved us the better part of a days riding. But now I’m pretty sure we’ll get to Freeland, our ultimate goal. Not much exciting happened today. Rural Ohio, much like rural Michigan, features a lot of roads so straight and flat that even mini-vans can drive too fast. We did stop at a really nice coffee shop in Fremont Ohio called DaVinci’s. Good coffee, good pastry and free wifi. Loved it. Tonight for dinner I think we are going to hit the Big Boy next door. I used to love Big Boy and I haven’t eaten at one in probably 15 years. Yumm.