Today was a long and busy day. I was correctly informed that today would be a bit harder of a ride. I was expecting hard like climbing Mt. Rose or Monarch pass hard. It wasn't nearly as difficult as those mountains were however, I've been riding on flat lands for almost a good week, so the steep hills that I was faced with, I did at times find challenging, and it did cause a few explicit words to be spoken (imagine that)!!!!!
There was lots of turning and going through farm lands throughout the day. A good half of the day was cool and overcast as rain was expected. By 1pm though, when we stopped for lunch, I really thought we were in the clear. It suddenly was very hot and the sun came out. We stopped to eat in the very small town of Frederictown, OH. As I was going inside another Mennonite/Amish buggy went by with about 4 women in it, dressed in long dresses and prairie hoods. Unfortunetly tho, I couldn't get my camera out quickly enough to take a pic! :(
Prior to entering Frederictown, we passed by a llama farm. This man had 10 llamas as pets, which he had bought and raised for show. They all turned out to be too small to be winners or worth much money. In stopping and talking with this man, I did learn that we can use the wool from llamas to make warm sweaters and from their coat also comes the felt hats! Here is a pic of a few of the llamas.
After lunch, around mile 60 or so, the climbing of the hills began, and so did the rain. We put on our rain gear, so it did keep us warm, but it did downpour on us none the less for a good 1/2 hour. By the time we made it to the next sag stop at mile 75 it was sunny and warm again, so really, it could have been a lot lot worse than what it was. This also is really only the 4th day out of 41 days that its rained on us, so I think we've been really lucky weather wise thus far.
Here is yet another picture of a corn field I passed by today in Ohio. Cool huh?
I also passed what I believe to be another christmas tree farm. It looked like some blue spruce trees along with some other kinds of trees that were all neatly pruned. Here are a few pics of that too.
Tonight, Norb, Brian, and I decided to go into town to eat at one of the local restaurants rather than eat at the buffet again. Wooster is a nice, quaint toan, and we ate at a place called Broken Rocks Cafe and Bakery. It was quite good!
Well, tomorrow is going to be another long day, and probably still challenging as the profile shows many hills. Tomorrow I will be riding from Wooster, OH to Youngstown, OH. Total mileage is roughly around 92 miles, so I am gonna sign off now!
Adios!!! Meiri.
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