Quote Originally Posted by shootingstar View Post
It certainly is tougher to persuade someone of a lovely bike route if one is seeing for lst time in a car!

Like you, I returned to cycling later (well, alot later than you) in a different city. I did wonder what the experience would be like in the original city/area that I grew up.

So several yrs. after cycling bug bit me, we went on our own self-made bike tour trip through Mennonite countryside, etc. I deliberately chose that we cycle in the fall and it was gorgeous and better particularily on bike. Except I hadn't anticipated transport trucks on a certain stretch of highway. Or how much of the farmland was overtaken by shopping mall, surburban development.

Still..we did the wooden covered bridges, etc. It was revisiting an area I had forgotten abit but from the perspective of bike saddle.
The ride in question contained a really big hill. It wasn't so much the way up that made me think he was nuts. It was the way down! (I was the kid who hated roller coasters. Can't you tell? ) I think it would have been nice...aside from that hill.

Now that I think about it, there are plenty of places back "home" that I would have liked to ride, and there are a lot of charity rides of varying lengths in that part of the state. I suppose it's a good place for it--scenic in parts, rolling or hilly areas, a couple of rivers (a few of the rides cross the Ohio River) to make it more scenic...