Paid a quick weekend visit to one of my galpals, and snapped a few pics along the way. The weather wasn't cooperative for most of the trip but whaddya gonna do:

 

After two-ish hours of a zombie drive on 71:

 

Downtown, yay!

 

 

 

 

 

 

You don't have to tell me twice...

 

... because we were driving THROUGH it!

 

We finally get to Point Pleasant, near my galpal's house - apparently it's Grant's birthplace:

 

On our way to lunch:

 

 

Finally we arrive - if you go to the Green Papaya, try the Penang Curry dish... drooool...

 

 

 

 

 

The main commercial drag through O'Bryonville:

 

This was odd:

 

Off to our next destination, we pass downtown Cincy:

 

 

Big Mac Bridge!

 

Look Ma, it's Kentucky!

 

On Sunday we stopped by Lebanon:

 

 

They want $179K for this beauty!

 

And heading back north:

 

 

Yeah, can't say I'm a fan:

 

And another 2-ish hour zombie drive and we're home!

 

 

You went through O'Bryonville; nice! East Walnut Hills is always fun to drive through.

Forgot to mention - the chocolate store in O'Bryonville is to.die.for.

There's also "Hemptations" hehe.

 

Best picture of the set.. the one that leads you back to Cleveland.

 

This one really freaked me out! 

That "Hell is Real" sign always freaks me out.  It's even better on the way back...the Ten Commandments!

Don't forget that KKK dude with the giant confederate flag on top of his roof and a burned cross in his back yard. Good thing he lives out in the middle of nowhere; someone would have already pulled a Devils Night on his @ss.

That "Hell is Real" sign always freaks me out.  It's even better on the way back...the Ten Commandments!

 

I don't like the flat part of the state except the cities.

^Agreed.

Can't have the cities without the rural stuff.

oh come on you hill rats, tontogany rules!

I love the open farmlands. I grew up on them, and over the years, watching the seasonal changes as the crops were planted, grew, matured and were harvested, I eventually came to see the beauty in those places.

 

Yesterday afternoon I visited the family farm for the first time since the leaves fell. The sun was low in the sky and the warm light backlit constantly-shifting winter clouds that said, "snow tonight," fringing them with oranges and golds. Here and there shafts of direct sunlight broke through and slowly swept across the landscape, highlighting fields and woodlots and clusters of farm buildings against a dark-sky backdrop. It was a splendid sight, and left me feeling more contented than any urban skyline ever could.

This is not odd...it's cool!

Ohio is fun.

Yay!  Now we just need high speed rail connecting everything so you don't have to zombie-drive, and we could get more MayDay pictures of our beloved cities!

 

Rob, I know you love the urban and the rural - I've just had the "city bug" since I was a kid. I think I was four when I asked my parents if we could move to Youngstown :lol:

 

"Now we just need high speed rail connecting everything so you don't have to zombie-drive,"

 

RiverViewer, that's too funny - I said the exact same thing to my partner - somewhere in Morrow County.

Yay!  Now we just need high speed rail connecting everything so you don't have to zombie-drive, and we could get more MayDay pictures of our beloved cities!

 

I think we should take this proposal, verbatim, to ODOT.

Can't have the cities without the rural stuff.

tell that to singapore

Ladies and gentlemen, Bizarro Columbus.

Yay!  Now we just need high speed rail connecting everything so you don't have to zombie-drive, and we could get more MayDay pictures of our beloved cities!

 

 

In a lot of cases, a return of interurban 70 - 80 mph service connecting the smaller cities and towns with the major population centers would be quite adequate. If it were frequent, comfortable and on-time it could eliminate the need for a large percentage of the car traffic that now exists. It would also lead to an improvement in quality of life for the residents of the smaller cities and towns by feeding a market for local transit and taxi services that a lot of those places once had.

 

When the interurban rail and intercity bus systems quit and visitors no longer arrived in town except by car, the market for downtown hotel rooms and local common-carrier transportation disappeared and the local providers went out of business, making even the non-traveling local residents completely car-dependent.

I loved the tour. :-)