Happy Spring! Happy Easter! Happy Pesach! Today we set out on a longer (15 mile) bike venture because the ‘trail’ was largely off road again. It took us a while to jockey around all the bikes and get the cars in place, but figured the miles gained was well worth the time spent. Our beautiful day started off with a long stretch of NCIT that was as flat and straight as if it was drawn up with a pencil and ruler. A leisurely pace brought us to the quiet little town of Clyde. As we came up to the town of Fremont we crossed over the Sandusky river, where some locals were fishing for walleye. When you look at a map we are now REALLY close to Lake Erie, so I guess the walleye are coming up river to spawn? On arriving at the much larger town of Fremont, we passed the home and memorial library & museum of president Rutherford B Hayes! This was a nice surprise and was quite the mansion and grounds. Spring was blooming all around us and his grave was tucked at the back of the property. There were also a few tourists milling around- it was a nice place to linger on a sunny day. After snaking through the surrounding neighborhoods (the BT was NOT well marked in town) we unfortunately ended up on route 20 for a stretch with no bike lane for a stretch. Ended up at Fremont trailhead lot where the NCIT picked up again. We all seemed to have survived our longer time spent on the saddle, so we will pick it up a notch on our next ‘hike’.
