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Slow Marimbas
One positive to my continuing underemployment is being able to help out Mom&Dad. Last week, went to Peebles, Ohio, to pick Dad up. He sold the second I9200 truck, to a driver from the area. The drive was easy enough; emptying out the cab of Dad's personal stuff filled up the Mariner's back seat and cargo space, though.
Interstate 71 remains a strange road for me, despite its southern terminus being about three miles from where I'm sitting. I think I've driven some measurable distance on it more times in the last year than in the rest of my life. It's curvy, by Interstate standards, and hilly, and about halfway to its brief merger with 75, there are the signs marking the site of the 1988 Carrollton bus crash, and that always gives me a little shiver.
From Cincinnati, Ohio Route 32 is a pretty good road. Once past the suburbs, it's limited-access, with a signaled intersection now and then. You can make good time on this one. It's signed as the James A. Rhodes Appalachian Highway, and I entertained myself imagining War Machine flying down the median.
A few miles along US52, staying very close to the Ohio River. There's a short stretch where large terraced hills separate the road from the river, and I thought at first they were Cahokia-style earthworks or something related to the Serpent Mound site, but, nope. They're coal ash piles. Covered in dirt and grass, so that's something, I guess.
The old bridge connecting Aberdeen, Ohio, to Maysville is a WPA-era structure. Two narrow lanes, and according to Dad, two trucks meeting on it can be a little hairy. From there, it's US68 into Lexington, and there's a newly-built bypass around Millersburg that avoids way too many traffic lights.
From Bowman to Peebles to the farm to Bowman - 442 miles.
Interstate 71 remains a strange road for me, despite its southern terminus being about three miles from where I'm sitting. I think I've driven some measurable distance on it more times in the last year than in the rest of my life. It's curvy, by Interstate standards, and hilly, and about halfway to its brief merger with 75, there are the signs marking the site of the 1988 Carrollton bus crash, and that always gives me a little shiver.
From Cincinnati, Ohio Route 32 is a pretty good road. Once past the suburbs, it's limited-access, with a signaled intersection now and then. You can make good time on this one. It's signed as the James A. Rhodes Appalachian Highway, and I entertained myself imagining War Machine flying down the median.
A few miles along US52, staying very close to the Ohio River. There's a short stretch where large terraced hills separate the road from the river, and I thought at first they were Cahokia-style earthworks or something related to the Serpent Mound site, but, nope. They're coal ash piles. Covered in dirt and grass, so that's something, I guess.
The old bridge connecting Aberdeen, Ohio, to Maysville is a WPA-era structure. Two narrow lanes, and according to Dad, two trucks meeting on it can be a little hairy. From there, it's US68 into Lexington, and there's a newly-built bypass around Millersburg that avoids way too many traffic lights.
From Bowman to Peebles to the farm to Bowman - 442 miles.