Larry's Bike Ride Adventures
Monday, June 10, 2019
June 6, 2019 Thursday From Defiance, Ohio
Yesterday on my family message center one of my children posted that one of my best friends daughter had passed away two months after she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. She was 49. This morning I was dressed and ready to ride when I remembered I hadn't called my friend and his wife to express my condolences. This was the third of their seven children they had lost. My friend was also battling cancer. I asked his wife how her husband was doing and she said not good. He was in hospice care at home and could pass anytime. Before we started on this adventure we had discussed that if anything happened to anyone in our families or to anyone close to us that we would not hesitate returning home. This was one of those situations. So we started driving home to Mesa, Arizona. We haven't decided if we will resume this journey when this crisis is over. If we do not return to continue we have had a wonderful experience that we will never forget.
June 5, 2019 Wednesday Fremont to Defiance, Ohio
Sunday, June 9, 2019
June 4, 2019 Tuesday Berea to Fremont, Ohio
Beautiful ride today on the Lake Erie Coastal Ohio Trail. Prestigious home along this route. |
One of the homes where the beach of Lake Erie is their backyard. |
These restaurants are only in Ohio. |
This home appears to have violated the building code for this neighborhood. |
Porterhouse steak and shrimp with baked beans, cold slaw, potato wedges, and a dinner roll. Frickin good food from Frickers restaurant |
Another home with Lake Erie as their backyard. |
Wednesday, June 5, 2019
June 3, 2019 Monday Erie to Berea, PA
Did not ride today. Hardly slept last night because of the pain in my ribs from the fall at church yesterday. We drove to Berea, Ohio but stopped along the way in Kirtland to see some church history sites of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. In the group taking the tour of the historical sites was a couple from Gilbert, Arizona. Their last name was Carroll. He had taught some of my grandchildren. Her parents were Frank and Myrna Gibson and I had coached her brother, Scott Gibson when I was teaching at Mesa Junior High School in Mesa, Arizona. Sometimes this world shrinks a little bit. After the tour of the historical sites we drove a little out of our way and had a dinner at a Amish restaurant. It was really good food and Revis satisfied some of her shopping cravings as they had a well-stocked gift store.
Pictures I took today have not come through from my iPhone to the blog. Sometimes is takes a couple of days. When they come through I'll edit them in.
Pictures I took today have not come through from my iPhone to the blog. Sometimes is takes a couple of days. When they come through I'll edit them in.
June 2, 2019 Sunday in Erie, PA
Mark and Cindy with their grand daughter Ka;yla. |
Strawberries near the Johnson's farm. |
The blueberry plants in the Johnson's garden are putting on the berries. |
While we were eating the man Mark contracts with to spray his grapes for mold came and started spraying. He has to do that maybe three times during the growing season or the mold will ruin his crop. |
As we left the Johnson's home we noticed some of the vines that grow in the area like to climb the power lines. |
Sunday, June 2, 2019
June 1, 2019 Saturday Dunkirk/Fredonia, NY to Erie, PA
Traveling due West today directly into a 15 to 20 mph headwind. Very slow progress. But the scenery and landscape is fabulous. Miles and miles and miles of wine vineyards.
Wine vineyard. |
Pink elephant in front of a winery. |
A little patriotism this Memorial Day week. |
Entry to the winery with the pink elephant in front. |
The grapes are off to a good start. |
More vineyards. |
Hello Northwestern Pennsylvania. |
Cherries, too. |
No telling how many more miles of wine vineyards along the Lake Erie Wine Country Trail there are. |
More vineyards. |
Saturday, June 1, 2019
May 31, 2019 Friday In Fredonia to catch up on blog
Didn't get the rest I needed last night because of the rib injury. Decided I needed some more rest so we stayed in the motel another night and that gave me some more time to catch up on this blog.
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