On your left*
Posted: August 31, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in Life, Air, Bicycle Adventures, Earth, exercise, Fire, goals, health, home, Local Tourists, nature, Photography, Spirit, Summer, water, weather | Tags: Cuyahoga River, Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad, cycling, fall foliage, Indigo Lake, nature, Ohio, Ohio and Erie Canal, Outdoors, Photography, Summer, Towpath Trail, trees, water, weather, wildflowers 31 Comments
Early morning fog hovering over the pond.
I went on a bike ride today. I went on a train ride, too. The Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad has a Bike Aboard! program that, for a $2.00 fare (yes, you read that right — $2.00!!), allows cyclists to bike along the Ohio and Erie Canal Towpath Trail in one direction and ride the train back to where you started, or as in my case, the other way around.
309: Hot and steamy cycling adventures
Posted: July 29, 2011 Filed under: 365 Life in the Bogs Challenge, Adventures in Life, Air, Bicycle Adventures, Earth, family, goals, Healthful Living Plan, home, Local Tourists, nature, Photography, Spirit, Summer, water, weather | Tags: Cleveland, cycling, Lake Erie, Ohio and Erie Canal, Photo, Picnik, postaday2011, Pro Football Hall of Fame, Stark County Ohio, West Side Market 15 Comments
Under the bridges on the Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail in Stark County
As promised, I have some photos from yesterday’s cycling adventures. No self portraits are included. It was a 3H day (hot, hazy, and humid). I was not a pretty sight by the time we finished our six mile ride.
250: Scenes from a bike ride
Posted: May 31, 2011 Filed under: 365 Life in the Bogs Challenge, Adventures in art, Adventures in Life, beginnings, Bicycle Adventures, Earth, family, Fun!, garden, gardening, goals, Healthful Living Plan, home, Local Tourists, nature, Photography, Spirit, Spring, weather | Tags: Akron, Bicycle, cycling, ducks, geese, Lake Erie, Little Miami Scenic Trail, Ohio and Erie Canal, Photography, postaday2011, Towpath 34 Comments
Ready, set...
The city of Akron was co-founded in 1825 (so it is younger than the township in which I live) by Paul Williams and surveyor of the Connecticut Western Reserve General Simon Perkins. It was interesting to learn this because the street where we met M the Younger and his wife, Merdi, is named after Paul Williams and we have often wondered if it was named after the composer/songwriter (we were obviously unsure of any possible local link, not knowing much about him) or someone else. History mystery solved.
The really important thing you need to know about Akron, for the purposes of this bike ride, is that the name is derived from the Greek word ἄκρον which means a summit or high point.
Life in the Bogs 