Beautiful sunny day so we decided to go for a long walk today! Started off by asking permission to park in the state police station since this was nearest the trail head and it just so happened an officer was driving in to provide the “ok”. We expected all of todays ‘hike’ to be either on a greenway or a back road, so that also influenced our decision toward a long walk (not really a hike). Rather quickly found our way into the center square of Chardon, where we bought paninnis ‘to go’ at a cozy little place, Beans coffee shop and bistro! Nice venue and food turned out to be great as well. Have to say it was nice walking out of the square with a mocha in hand knowing a good lunch was in my future down the road 🙂 After admiring many rejuvenated old houses while leaving town we again found ourselves at the beginning of the longest greenway ever! Would be great for bikers, which did not appear today because snow covered about half of the walkway. Although kind of boring after a few miles, we weren’t walking next to cars and there were plenty of interesting sights along the way like covered bridges, an awesome-looking tree-top rope climb, the headwaters of the Cuyahoga river, and the occasional dog walker. We were all surprised that the walk went so well and we really didn’t feel much discomfort until about 8 miles! We even had enough energy to go back into Chardon square and visit an antique shop, where, of course, April bought a coat rack and Wendy a blue glass dish. I had no patience to further explore the up- and downstairs…just wanted to finally get in the car and sit after walking 5 hours.
