It's strange to think that just yesterday I was having a relaxed day of Andy Warhol and Thai food in Pittsburgh, PA, and today I'm writing to you from the Midwest. Gettting to Ohio today (by way of West Virginia, hence the John Denver reference) has made this whole cross country trip seem a little more real. Telling people in Pennsylvania that I had biked from Boston didn't seem too impressive, but now that I've actually crossed into the heartland, it seems like we've gone quite a ways. (700+ miles, actually) The ride today was fairly uneventful, a 40 mile ride that seemed like child's play after the grueling rides of the last week.
Items of note from today included:
- Our leaders surprised four of the members of the trip with awards. These awards included one girl who recieved a medal for her good spirits after getting poison ivy on her butt (she will, for the purposes of this blog, remain anonymous) and one for myself for "waging continuous war with my bike" (read: I am always the greasiest and grimiest member of the trip. Enough so that it has been honored with a medal with football players on it.)
- Having a free large cheese pizza from Papa John's that the owner donated and then scarfing it down with two other girls.
- Stubenville, OH. Home of Dean Martin. Apparently.
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Hi Kate - I'm so proud of your award - yes indeed you are mine.
Loved the new pix of you and Charlotte building on Bike and Build too.
...So you've been to the home of Dean Martin, but just ahead and just west of Steubenville perhaps you'll have the pleasure of visiting the world's largest Longaberger basket (in Newark, OH) or west of that, the world's oldest stoplight in Ashville, OH...so there are things to see in the midwest besides corn and cows. love you babe. m
Who would have thought that a Poor would get an award with football players on it? Miracles never cease! And, your mom is right...lots in the midwest. If you were just going a little bit north in Indiana, you could go through Boswell, IN where they have signs up that claim they are the "hub of the universe". Indeed. I'm guessing that no one in your well-educated group knows that, either. Keep plugging baby! I'm proud of you!!! AJ
Good pizza eating!
-Howie
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