{"id":595,"date":"2018-08-01T08:26:37","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T12:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/zagorsky\/?p=595"},"modified":"2018-08-01T15:47:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T19:47:54","slug":"day-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/zagorsky\/2018\/08\/01\/day-33\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 33: Toledo to Norwalk, Ohio (July 31, 2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We got a late start leaving Toldeo this morning.\u00a0 Leaving major urban areas is typically not a lot of fun and Toledo was no exception.\u00a0 We pedaled over a huge bridge, which had guards preventing people from jumping or throwing things off the bridge.\u00a0 The guards stopped just before the middle of the bridge, leaving the highest point open.\u00a0 I guess the authorities are okay if people throw themselves off the bridge into the river but are not happy if anyone wants to throw themselves off the bridge and hit something on land.<\/p>\n<p>We pedaled by a giant oil refinery, which my son said smelled like his bicycle tires. We also pedaled down a long urban highway lined with strip malls and chain restaurants.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, about 15 miles from downtown we reached Genoa, a more rural town with less traffic.\u00a0 We stopped for an early lunch on the main street.\u00a0 The service was quite slow.\u00a0 This turned out to be fortuitous since it rained heavily while we were waiting and then eating.\u00a0 If we had gotten our food faster, we would have been caught in a major downpour.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-595 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/zagorsky\/2018\/08\/01\/day-33\/at-president-ruthord-hayes-home\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/zagorsky\/files\/2018\/08\/At-President-Ruthord-Hayes-home-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/zagorsky\/2018\/08\/01\/day-33\/kale-forest-in-ohio\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/zagorsky\/files\/2018\/08\/Kale-forest-in-Ohio-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/zagorsky\/2018\/08\/01\/day-33\/leaving-toledo\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/zagorsky\/files\/2018\/08\/Leaving-Toledo-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/zagorsky\/2018\/08\/01\/day-33\/sleeping-on-the-concrete-floor\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/zagorsky\/files\/2018\/08\/Sleeping-on-the-concrete-floor-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>About five miles outside of Genoa we got on the start of Ohio\u2019s North Coast Inland Trail.\u00a0 It started off as gravel but quickly switched to pavement.\u00a0 We were on the trail for much of the day and I only have good things to say about this trail.\u00a0 It was well marked and well maintained.<\/p>\n<p>In a few of the larger towns the trail stopped on the edge of town and started up again on the other side.\u00a0 This happened in Fremont, Ohio and we used it as an excuse to stop for some Gatorade and some snacks.\u00a0 I ate an entire container of Pringles potato chips plus I tried zero calorie Gatorade.<\/p>\n<p>On the way out of town my son noticed a sign for the Rutherford B Hayes presidential library.\u00a0 It turned out Hayes, who was the 19<sup>th<\/sup> president of the United States, lived in Fremont.\u00a0 Hayes served just one four year turn as president a bit after the civil war ended.\u00a0 His \u201cclaim to fame\u201d is that he signed the bill that ended reconstruction of the south and gave back political control to southern states.\u00a0 His library of papers and books was the first Presidential library in US history.\u00a0 We didn\u2019t stay long but it was interesting seeing a presidential library of a man who, roughly 150 years after being the most powerful elected official, is basically forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>After pedaling about 10 more miles I began to get cramps and needed to stop.\u00a0 We pulled over into a gazebo and I fell asleep on the concrete floor.\u00a0 I woke up and did not feel well, but we were still about 26 miles from our hotel.\u00a0 The next few miles of pedaling were agony.\u00a0 Luckily, we were on a bike trail and I didn\u2019t have to worry about cars.\u00a0 I felt like throwing up.\u00a0 For the next two hours of pedaling I felt terrible. Slowly, though I began to feel better.\u00a0 By the time we hit the 15 miles to go mark I felt fine and the last hour plus of pedaling was easy.\u00a0 For the rest of the trip I will not eat Pringles or drink diet Gatorade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We got a late start leaving Toldeo this morning.\u00a0 Leaving major urban areas is typically not a lot of fun and Toledo was no exception.\u00a0 We pedaled over a huge bridge, which had guards preventing people from jumping or throwing things off the bridge.\u00a0 The guards stopped just before the middle of the bridge, leaving &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/zagorsky\/2018\/08\/01\/day-33\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Day 33: Toledo to Norwalk, Ohio (July 31, 2018)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/zagorsky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/zagorsky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/zagorsky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/zagorsky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/zagorsky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/zagorsky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":604,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/zagorsky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions\/604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/zagorsky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/zagorsky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/zagorsky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}