O HI O

What has rounded edges and is hi in the middle? Ohio! I know this won't be shocking to most of you but I learned today that Ohio is in no way even remotely flat. I thought we'd have nice gently rolling hills the entire way moving toward pancake flat. We had nice gently rolling hills for the first half of the day and then we got hills reminicent of the four other states we've been through so far. Yesterday was really nice and had the gently rolling hills I expected. I road sweep with Sarah yesterday which means that we road at the back to make sure everyone made it. Then when we got to Tallmadge we went to the Firehouse Grille for lunch and almost all of us had burgers. We got free cookies at Linda's Kitchen which were really good. Then we had a relaxing afternoon and ate dinner at our host site the First Church of God in Tallmadge. After dinner we had a party for one of our riders, Anthony L., who missed his graduation yesterday. We got him a robe and set up chairs and had a few people conduct the ceremony and then we had cake and went bowling. I bowled an ok game after a rocky start and had 3 strikes in 2 games.

Today we had a long 85 mile ride so we got up at 5:00 and set off by about 7:30. We had an excellet breakfast at which I ate a bagel with cream cheese, eggs, a bowl of oatmeal, and two donuts. This is a perfect example of how much we have to eat in order to take in enough calories. Our ride this morning was alright. There was some truck traffic and almost no shoulder so my riding partner for the day, Chris, and I had a close call with a semi that did not leave enough room when it passed. We are both perfectly fine so no worries. We ate lunch at a firehouse today and the firemen were very nice and let us use their bathrooms and gave us ice for our camelbaks. They even pulled a truck out so we could take a picture with it. After lunch the roads we were on were much lower traffic which was really nice, but they were really hilly. Tonight we're staying at Kenyon College which I knew was in the Midwest, but did not know was in Ohio until today. We are staying in a dorm building so was all have our own beds to sleep in tonight complete with sheets. I'm very excited about getting to sleep in a real bed since I don't really remember what that is like anymore other than to remember that it is wonderful. Tomorrow we're headed for Columbus.

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