American Discovery Trail: Grant Lake, Ohio

Actually, I am still more than five miles from Grant Lake, but close enough. The picture here is called The Venue at Grant Lake, which seems descriptive enough. It looks like there is even a "V" for venue on the building. You can get married there.

Since I last posted, I have spent six of the twelve days playing bridge, and I have walked only 35 miles. However, I do not anticipate any tournaments for at least several weeks, so back to walking.

I am ready to be out of Ohio, though I have some weeks to go. Milestones for the rest of Ohio: 1,000 miles walked, which I should reach in about a week; Cincinnati, the only big Ohio city on my route; Kentucky, which I will walk into and out of all in a couple of days after Cincinnati; Elizabethtown, where the American Discovery Trail splits into northern and southern routes; and the Indiana border, almost 60 miles past Elizabethtown, even though Elizabethtown is on the border with Indiana, because we will take the northern route, which goes north along the Ohio side of the border for 58 miles before turning west into Indiana.

I promised a bridge update. I earned 3.5 silver points in the tournament over the last weekend in April, then 3.5 red and 1 gold in the tournament in Oregon this last weekend. That leaves me needing three silver points and twenty total points to reach my next milestone. I am not sure yet how I will get the silver points, but I expect to get there by the end of August.

The trail crosses a place called Sterling Run. This picture popped up on the Internet because this football player is named Sterling, and there he is, running.

An abandoned building at Neel, Ohio. Google Maps has trouble finding Neel, Ohio. It looks like the whole town was abandoned, or maybe this store was the whole town.

New Hope has a covered bridge, which looks like it is closed to traffic. The sign on the top of it warns about fines for damaging the bridge.

Wikipedia does not show any population for New Hope. There used to be a post office here, but it closed in 1906. Also, Wikipedia shows where New Hope is on a map of Ohio, and that map says that we are nowhere near the place, so who knows? Maybe we are close to this bridge, and maybe not.