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But we made it. And it was magnificently beautiful. And that night, as we sat around a fire,
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Conkles Hollow Rim Trail
We knew it was a mistake long before we reached the halfway point. But we didn't know how much lay ahead.
Michael, Susan, and I ignored the "Danger!" sign as we entered the path. I don't know why. Were we each waiting for someone else to back down? Perhaps if we'd seen the sign at the other entrance, the one saying that people have died on this trail...
The main issue was that the path was in places quite narrow and treacherous. But the trail was also much longer than we anticipated, and we were old and out of shape and suffering from issues from balance problems to wonky joints.
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 A road trip with Susan
Our map app worked fine until we got to Harmony; but somehow, although we had entered our urban Pittsburgh destination correctly, the app took us to the middle of nowhere and said we had arrived. Gremlins changed our destination.
We quite enjoyed this because the gravel road reminded us of going with Grandpa Doctor when he made calls out in the country.
We eventually made it to our destination in Pittsburgh. The next day we headed back to Columbus. We thought if we checked "Avoid Highways" in the app we would be directed to the route we remember from back in the day, before freeways were built, a pleasant but unremarkable route.
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And we had accidentally chosen a very scenic route through West Virginia and eastern Ohio. The app intended for us to take some extreme roads, and the phenomenon was compounded by occasional errors we made when the app's instructions weren't clear to us.
These photos don't capture the beauty we were immersed in, nor the fun I had driving. Poor Susan was car sick for too much of the day,
but for me it was magic.
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