Maidei goes on a world tour-Part 1 of the Bicycle Mystery Tour

[Possegal]

I loaded up her pictures from Pittsburgh. I hope others can do the same. I think making a book of her travels would really be a lot of fun.

http://maidei.shutterfly.com/

[kmehrzad]

I loaded up her pictures from Pittsburgh. I hope others can do the same. I think making a book of her travels would really be a lot of fun.

http://maidei.shutterfly.com/

I loaded my pics from Maidei's visit.

[Possegal]

YAY!!! two down, and a whole lot more folks to go.

I did make a new album and titled it Virginia (since I think that is where you two were riding). Just so that once we have lots more pictures in there (fingers crossed) people will be able to tell where she was riding/visiting from the album title. That will help with making a book as well.

(can you tell I scrapbook in my free time?)

[kmehrzad]

I did make a new album and titled it Virginia (since I think that is where you two were riding). Just so that once we have lots more pictures in there (fingers crossed) people will be able to tell where she was riding/visiting from the album title. That will help with making a book as well.

Great idea. I put my location in the Title line but actually putting the pictures in albums according to state / country is the sign of an organized mind.

[Bike Chick]

I just checked it out. How cool!

[Catrin]

Very nice idea, I like the idea of a book of her travels

[OakLeaf]

We visited the Great Circle Mound, part of the Newark earthworks. Here's Maidei at the entrance. You can just see the edges of the borrow pit, inside the circle, where earth was dug out to create the mound.



This diagram illustrates how the Octagon Mound - another part of the earthworks that's open to the public only a few days a year (the rest of the time it's a private golf course, grrrrrrr) - was used for astronomy.



This bridge and walkway cross over the borrow pit and the mound opposite the entrance. A plaque on the bridge says it was "thought to have been built" by the Civilian Conservation Corps. I didn't realize that was prehistoric.



Modern builders also erect structures that 21st-century residents can't really understand the point of. This is the headquarters of the Longaberger Basket Co.





Later, we went for a ride along the National Road. US Rt. 66 is nicknamed the "mother road," but US 40 follows the route of the original National Road that connected Cumberland, MD with St. Louis, MO. The "mother road" for pre-motorized (and present-day non-motorized) transport. Milestones were set every mile along the road; many of them still remain.



We stopped in front of the Nelson T. Gant House. The house is in the early stages of restoration - several later additions were tacked onto it, and it was used as a restaurant for many years. Not much to look at, but here's the historical marker.



Weller Pottery was famous in the area from its founding in 1872 until the pottery closed after WWII. Several years ago, 100 seven-foot-high reproduction Weller vases were made and hand-painted as a benefit for the Appalachian Pottery Guild, The Artists Colony of Zanesville and a Weller Museum in the former Weller Pottery manufacturing facility. Some of the vases are displayed outside sponsoring businesses; a number are arranged at the foot of the World Famous Y-Bridge.



Here she is closer to the bridge:



We walked the bike to the middle of the bridge and turned left.



Then it was time to go to work. Maidei doesn't fit on the spin bikes either - and the room is too dark, none of the pictures came out. I tried to get her to teach my aerobics class instead.