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We are having a great day! Eating a delicious lunch of pizza and beer at The Works in Loveland. Beer is Mad Tree from Cincy. The restaurant used to be the Loveland Water Works building. Awesome and a great patio!

We love it when it storms during a rest day! Friday we rested a lot and Mom made us ham sandwiches. (Cincinnati is known as Porkopolis) It rained and rained! Decided to stay at my Mom’s another day to wait out the weather. It is about to storm again! And they say it will storm most of the day which will bring cooler weather.
We plan to pedal north tomorrow morning as soon as the rain stops.
Yesterday we went to the new REI store (Recreation Equipment inc) and got a couple of Big Agnes sleeping pads to replace our 20-year-old Thermarest. They are great! I will let Guy give the full report. My sister Janet went with us and we had a lot of laughs as we bopped around doing errands.
We picked up Mom and headed over to the famous Price Hill Chili Parlor for the requisite 4 way and cheese coneys. It was a great day!
We still have some chores to do before we leave. We need to fix my headlight and my front pannier. The Chinese food styrofoam “fender” is working well so I will make do with that for now. We have a big pile of stuff to mail home, the old sleeping pads and the cold weather clothes we bought in Millersburg.

This is our little 10×10 cabin at Frontier Campground near Silver Springs. We love this place.

And here is our neat cabin at Morgans, overlooking the Little Miami river.

Carolyn and one of our favorite “followers,” Mary. She flagged us down as we passed each other at 20mph on the trail; “Hey! I know you guys!”

We had a great lunch at the Trailside Cafe in Loveland.

Tire dipping the Ohio.

Victory!

We stayed in the Millenium our first night in Cincy.

The route from downtown to my Mom’s was pretty good, except for a couple of tricky construction zones. News flash– it was hot and windy! Of course my Mom lives at highest point, and of course it is to the west of town. Putz’s Dairy Whip was along the way. This is a famous place, established in 1938. Used to go there for ice cream after a winning game of softball when I was a kid. Still the same as I remember it.

So now all that headwind is transformed into a nice breeze pouring in the windows from across the pond, perfect for a nap.

Mom made us lunch and had ice cold beer for us. She has never had a beer in her life so she selects beer by the color of the package! Bud light is a nice thalo blue, if you are an artist! Great to be here to rest, re-gear, fix some stuff that broke, do laundry, mail some stuff home, and relax!

All rested and cooled off. Ready to make the last push, on road into the city. Here we go, next stop, Ohio River.

The cycling is easy today but our progress is slow. We are meeting a lot of interesting people this morning. Going to visit a couple bike shops, grab some food and move on south…