American Discovery Trail: Still in Ohio

 

This week, I finished the fourteenth segment of the American Discovery Trail, which took me to Pike Lake State Park, making my way into the southwest corner of Ohio. Cincinnati is my next big landmark, but I will not be there even by the end of April. Meanwhile, there are a number of pretty places in Ohio.

I walked through the town of Chillicothe this week, which looks a lot like a midwestern town, with nice brick buildings. Chillicothe was the first capital of Ohio, from 1803 to 1810, when the capital moved to Zanesville, then again from 1812 to 1816, when the capital moved to Columbus, where it has stayed so far. Also according to Wikipedia, Chillicothe is the seventh place in Ohio to be called Chillicothe, which is some sort of record I would think.

For the month, I walked over 320,000 steps, which would have been a pretty weak effort on my walk to Miami, when I was getting over 350,000 regularly, but for this walk it's a very decent month. Maybe I am getting older (almost certainly), but maybe I am just more relaxed, less focused on getting so many steps every day. In a month like this one, where I count every day, a little less than 150 miles per month looks like it will be normal, and with over 4,000 miles to go, that's a lot of months remaining. The path through Ohio, though, is the longest for any state until I get to Colorado, so I feel good about making my way across.

Scioto Trails State Park, south of Chillicothe.

Pike Lake State Park, at the end of segment fourteen of the American Discovery Trail. I like the picture, and the picnic tables look inviting. We are about thirteen miles past this place by now, but I will write about that in a future post.