Well this always happens when we get close to home. The closer we get, the fewer places we have not been before. We are happy to be almost home, but at the same time, once I hit the starter and start to move, I want to keep going, somewhere.
We started the morning with no direct idea of how to get back. I am running out of time since I need to be home Monday and back to work Tuesday. We pulled the old trick of telling Dave's GPS to get us 200 miles away, the least distance, and it took us on a great ride through peoples back yards and side streets, and un-numbered county roads. So the map today is not accurate (most of them are not particularly accurate), because I have no idea where the GPS took us. Dave has some breadcrumb thing on his GPS which would tell us but I'm too tired and we gotta get going.
I used to think of Ohio as a big flat agriculture state, but it is more diverse than that. Lots of history from the early 1800's, lots of manufacturing, lots of abandoned small farms like everywhere else on this trip, lots of big ag (corn mostly, some soy), and lots of medium sized towns.
After the GPS got us out a ways, we got on Rt 42, which was fairly empty and then Rt 40 which is the "National Road" built by the federal government way back when to help push people west and settle the land. They sure did. Roads are an interesting topic, because way back they used Indian trails which turned to wagon tracks. Then it seems individuals built toll roads, which I assume meant getting rights to improve roads and then charge for them. Then the states took the roads over and improved them paid for with taxes. The railroad competed with roads and way way back, the rivers were the highways that people used to get around and move goods back and forth. Seems it all sort of evolved as the free market did it's thing.
We took 40 until it merged with the interstate, Rt 70. We decided to take the interstate for a couple hours and it was not so much fun with big trucks and construction zones and too much traffic. We sighed relief when we pulled off at New Stanton PA and decided that was enough for the day.
Tonight we should be withing striking distance from home.
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