After milking the 11 am checkout time at the the Knights Inn, I walked south into the main part of Napoleon where I stopped for a fuel at McDonalds. All of the recent trips during their Monopoly promotion finally paid off as I won a free medium fries. I crossed the beautiful county courthouse, the Maumee River, and the Campbell's Soup plant before starting the run on the east side of town.
I stayed on one long straight road through the entirety of the run into Bowling Green. County Rd. P turned into 78 before turning into Poe Rd.-typical of the roads in Indiana and Ohio as they cross township and county lines. At the west end of BG, I gave my host for the night, Lane, a call to let him know I was close. Lane would be the first person from Warm Showers that I have stayed with since Idaho. It was wonderful to get connected back to such a great network that had kind of disappeared through the rural stretches I crossed. It is apparently a pretty popular spot as the home is only 200 yards off of the Northern Tier trans-continent bike crossing.
I met Lane and his wife Heidi as they were unloading a new glass shower door after breaking their current one while cleaning it this morning. The were both avid cyclists and Lane had crossed the United States when he graduated high school back in the 80's. He is now a school teacher and Heidi a secretary for the construction management department of Bowling Green State University.
After Lane left to rehearsal for 1776, a musical where he will have the lead role as John Adams, Heidi gave me a driving tour of the town and BGSU. I had heard of the school before, but figured it to be a small school since the Falcons are in a lower conference. I quickly found out that the campus is over three times larger than Oregon State's with lots of new beautiful buildings and plenty of construction.
I got two burritos to go for dinner from the Qdoba downtown at the end of the driving tour. I spent the rest of the evening devouring these and relaxing back at their beautiful home right off of a golf course. I was fortunate to get connected to such wonderful people.
I stayed on one long straight road through the entirety of the run into Bowling Green. County Rd. P turned into 78 before turning into Poe Rd.-typical of the roads in Indiana and Ohio as they cross township and county lines. At the west end of BG, I gave my host for the night, Lane, a call to let him know I was close. Lane would be the first person from Warm Showers that I have stayed with since Idaho. It was wonderful to get connected back to such a great network that had kind of disappeared through the rural stretches I crossed. It is apparently a pretty popular spot as the home is only 200 yards off of the Northern Tier trans-continent bike crossing.
I met Lane and his wife Heidi as they were unloading a new glass shower door after breaking their current one while cleaning it this morning. The were both avid cyclists and Lane had crossed the United States when he graduated high school back in the 80's. He is now a school teacher and Heidi a secretary for the construction management department of Bowling Green State University.
After Lane left to rehearsal for 1776, a musical where he will have the lead role as John Adams, Heidi gave me a driving tour of the town and BGSU. I had heard of the school before, but figured it to be a small school since the Falcons are in a lower conference. I quickly found out that the campus is over three times larger than Oregon State's with lots of new beautiful buildings and plenty of construction.
I got two burritos to go for dinner from the Qdoba downtown at the end of the driving tour. I spent the rest of the evening devouring these and relaxing back at their beautiful home right off of a golf course. I was fortunate to get connected to such wonderful people.
Bowling Green football stadium off of the interstate
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