{"id":1225,"date":"2023-06-01T13:52:40","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T18:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/?p=1225"},"modified":"2023-06-19T13:02:59","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T18:02:59","slug":"ashtabula-ohio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/2023\/06\/01\/ashtabula-ohio\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashtabula, Ohio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Made it to Ohio today. Not far across the border, but happy to be in the state where I’ll find my next capitol. Today was a day for crossing Erie and mostly riding the same road parallel to Lake Erie. I didn’t see much of the lake, though it seems that is the most common name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I found this out this morning when my bike computer was confused. I had told it to start plotting a route from “Lakeview inn” without realizing it had picked a different motel a few miles away. It all got sorted out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The road starting out had shoulders though it was more variable today and also more traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A brief section with bike lane going into Erie. The town seemed to stretch for about 12 miles and was busy throughout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some was residential streets like this one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I found a giant acorn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Past Erie, now with a set of camps and campgrounds like this “Eriez”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There was even a sign for a hill. Though compared to Connecticut or Vermont this was small.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The area I was cycling was once disputed land and then sold to Pennsylvania – https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Erie_Triangle<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Ohio border! I was happy to reach my first state (other than Vermont) without an Atlantic coast. I was less happy to see the shoulder went away and didn’t reappear in the 14 miles I cycled in Ohio. Hopefully unique to US20 but not a good first impression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There wasn’t a big “Welcome to Ohio” sign, but I found this boundary marker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A good spot to stop for lunch. There was a nice picnic table out back. It was getting warm, but fortunately I got most of my cycling in before lunch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Strava says<\/a>: 51.43 miles in 5:26:05 for 9.5 miles\/hour. 1060 feet climbed and 3499 calories burned. I am a little suspicious of those calorie numbers though. You put in your weight (not including extra gear weight) and it calculates this sum. Despite also having some gear to pedal along – I suspect my body is going more relaxed than the cycle computer thinks. Also not sure how many calories going in; more than as an office worker but not as many as the bike computer thinks. We’ll weigh sometime later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now I need to figure out my route through Ohio. There is an Ohio River to Lake Erie bike trail (OTET) that I will try parts but not sure where to pick it up.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Made it to Ohio today. Not far across the border, but happy to be in the state where I’ll find my next capitol. Today was a day for crossing Erie and mostly riding the same road parallel to Lake Erie. …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ohio","category-pennslyvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1225"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1506,"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions\/1506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}