58.9 miles today and 3356 miles overall
3400 of elevation gain
Today was a day of varying surfaces. We had a good ride today and laid down a few miles. The weather has been very cooperative, still warm but much more tolerable than a week or so ago.
The morning began with low cloud cover, which kept things cool and made for very pleasant few hours to start the day.
He saw a number of interesting things in the morning some houses for regular folks and some houses wee folks.
We have definitely left the flat part of Ohio. We’re no longer in the Great Plains but in the foothills of the Appalachians. The landscape is made up of farmland in the small valleys with woodlands on the surrounding hills. Also this is Amish county. We actually passed a horse and buggy on the road today. This was after asking permission since we wanted to be sure not to scare the horse.
Our riding took us on mostly country roads today, but on a variety of different surfaces. Some were bumpy roads with a lot of patches, some were brand new asphalt smooth with a nice shoulder and then a few miles over what’s called chip seal where where tar is laid down and then an excess of gravel is thrown over that. Cars and trucks car work the gravel into the tar and you end up overtime with a stable smooth surface. During the interim you can run into a lot of loose gravel so we had to deal with that for a few miles. We also threw in a bit of regular unpaved gravel roads just for fun so it made for an interesting day.
Some other pictures from the day.
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