GOBA 2009

Sunday : Ready for another GOBA adventure!

Sunday : Beautiful morning ride

Sunday : Meeting Elvis in Bellevue

Sunday : Train museum in Bellevue

Sunday: Lunch in Fremont at Hayes center

Sunday : rail trail leading into Elmore

Sunday : Waiting for the showers in Elmore

Sunday: All bikes loaded on Kay's car

Sunday : Mayflies in Port Clinton!

Sunday : First perch of the trip - near Marblehead

Sunday : on the ferry from Marblehead to Kelley's Island

Sunday : relaxing at Campbell's B&B on Kelley's Island

Sunday : Twin fawns; Kelleys is overrun with deer

Sunday : sunset over South Bass Island (aka Put-In-Bay)

Sunday : sunset over South Bass Island (aka Put-In-Bay) and Perry's Monument

Sunday : Nancy and Kay enjoy sunset on the benches in front of our B&B

Sunday : Bob and Pete contemplate sunset

Monday : sumpuous breakfast on the lakeside porch of the B&B

Monday : Visitng the glacial grooves near the north shore

Monday : Mulberrys were ripening throughout our vacation!

Monday : Our second sunset in front of the B&B, joined by our innkeepers the Campbells (left and right)

Monday : another beautiful sunset

Tuesday : With innkeeper Carol Campbell. No time for formal breakfast so she packed us one

Tuesday : on the ferry back to Marblehead

Tuesday : on the ferry back to Marblehead

Tuesday : on the ferry back to Marblehead

Tuesday : abandoned factory on the road between Pemberville and Perrysburg

Tuesday : Muslim mosque near Perrysburg; we were not properly dressed to enter

Tuesday : Kay met us for lunch at Perrysburgh Jr High -- City BBQ!

Tuesday : Fort Meigs, a War of 1812 fort in Perrysburg. Humorous graffiti.

Tuesday : Fort Meigs in Perrysburg

Tuesday : Fort Meigs cannon over the Maumee river basin

Tuesday : proof that this is Fort Meigs

Tuesday : afternoon rest stop in elementary school gym

Tuesday : welcome to Bowling Green! Nancy and Pete met while BGSU students

Tuesday : GOBAville appears at the Wood County fairgrounds

Tuesday : Marathon station in BG still has this sculpture from early 70s

Tuesday : Main street Bowling Green

Tuesday : BG restaurants were overrun, so we drove out to Tontogany to eat. Nancy had her graduation dinner here in 1976!

Tuesday : the only commercial windmill farm in Ohio, west of BG

Tuesday : Entertainment at the city park

Wednesday : first rest stop at Grand Rapids OH, on the Maumee river

Wednesday : canal along the river in Grand Rapids

Wednesday : downtown Grand Rapids. We returned late in the day to shop

Wednesday : Nancy and I once stayed at this Grand Rapids B&B

Wednesday : street organ in the countryside "you're entertaining me so I thought I'd return the favor"

Wednesday : the stree organ tune is encoded on punched cards

Wednesday : band performs at Florida afternoon rest stop on a hot day

Wednesday : men build low-cost chain-driven vehicles for legless

Wednesday : lock on the Miami and Eric Canal

Wednesday : lock on the Miami and Eric Canal

Wednesday : GOBAville at Defiance College, after a long hot ride

Wednesday : Fort Defiance, another War of 1812 fort

Wednesday : Fort Defiance, at the confluence of the Maumee and Auglaize rivers

Thursday : Nancy and I walking BGSU campus. This is art.

Thursday : BGSU Library, design by Don Drumm

Thursday : BGSU view west from library, was football field until early 60s

Thursday : Ridge street on campus is now pedestrian

Thursday : icosahedron in hallway of BGSU math-science bldg

Thursday : fomer hallway of BGSU computer science dept

Thursday : Falcon's nest at BGSU student union

Thursday : old part of BGSU campus

Thursday : Nancy in courtyard of Founders quad, where she lived for 3 years

Thursday : We drove to Toledo to visit the zoo!

Thursday : eagles at the Toledo Zoo

Thursday : the ancestors of these polar bears could smell Poe Ditch!

Thursday : seals at the zoo

Thursday : lunch at legendary Tony Packo's (M*A*S*H)

Thursday : glass blowing demonstration at Toledo Art Museum

Thursday : Southwyck mall, frequent destination of BGSU studnets in the 70s, now being demolished

Thursday : Nancy and I stop in for a beer at Howard's, where I spent many long evenings while a student -- legal age was 18 then for 3.2% beer

Thursday : the men's room at Howard's

Friday : joining the rest of the rides at first rest stop. They'd ridden from Defiance, we'd driven from BG.

Friday : this fellow was quite popular with the media. He and I had a conversation Sunday in the shower line

Friday : restful lunch stop in Deshler -- most were not this large or shady

Friday : visited OARDC crop facility near N. Baltimore

Friday : a canola pod and seed, at the OARDC center

Friday : canola plant (left) and camelina (right, similar to linseed)

Friday : we passed many former schoolhouses

Friday : official 2009 Endorphins photo, next to wheat field

Friday : offbeat vendor of bicycle parts and accessories arriving in Fostoria

Friday : Nancy's mirror broke and is now held on by duct tape obtained from lunch companion

Friday : dining in downtown Fostoria

Friday : Fostoria was once known for its glassware

Friday : Fostoria glassware exhibits

Friday : Fostoria GOBAville

Friday : Fostoria GOBAville

Friday : the Friday evening GOBA riders talent show

Friday : this young woman won third place

Friday : we'd just learned of Michael Jackson's death the previous day (and Farah Fawcett's too)

Friday : sharing ice cream in the hotel's back lawn

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Saturday : fist bumps for good luck! 6:15 am.

Saturday : elusive rider 2009, out of 2600+

Saturday : beautiful crisp morning on the road to Norwalk

Saturday : huge tomato field with all plants staked

Saturday : lunch stop outside Flat Rock

Saturday : real estate agents in Monroeville are known by first name only

Saturday : Pete arrived first in Norwalk, amidst piles of bags

Saturday : traditional photo of Nancy and Bob finishing together. The End!