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I write this in a full sleeping-wife-strangle-hold. You've been warned.
Today was really a pretty great day. We skipped church (always a good start), cooked out some hotdogs for lunch, then drove up to a little town called Peninsula. Despite the fact that we are about an hour from the shores of Lake Erie, this town was about 20 minutes from us and definitely not on the lake. See, Peninsula is a little day-resort town that's in the middle of Cuyahoga Valley National Park. It reminds me of Nashville, Indiana in a lot of ways, but there are no hotels there.
Where they got the name is beyond me.
Peninsula is a neat little historic town, situated in the park on the Cuyahoga River and the old Ohio & Erie Canal. Several recreation trails run through there, too. We took the opportunity of a beautiful Sunday to go rent some bicycles and travel down the Ohio & Erie Towpath Trail (which connects Cleveland to Akron via CVNP). We rode and rode... nearly 3 and a half miles away from where we started. We took a short break and rode back... and it was great. The bikes we rented were hardcore (light and comfortable), so far better than the $50 Wal-Mart monstrosities I'm used to. Even though we were winded when we got back, it was a great way to spend the afternoon.
Then, we got ice cream in a little restaurant in Peninsula and drove to where we saw literally hundreds of blue herons nesting. Those birds were huge, and there were hundreds of them up in trees.
After the birds, we came home, picked up Charley and some books and went to the Gorge Metro Park, in which we pulled up a little shady spot overlooking the lake, put out a blanket and read together for a while. We just laid together in the perfect weather while I read Chomsky's Hegemony or Survival and she read McCullough's 1776.
The day was so great that while we were at the park, I asked Amy a question: "all this stuff we did today was great... but when in our society did stuff like this suddenly become not enough? I mean, these are inexpensive, simple pleasures... why are they so easily overlooked?"
She didn't have an answer. Neither did I.
Where they got the name is beyond me.
Peninsula is a neat little historic town, situated in the park on the Cuyahoga River and the old Ohio & Erie Canal. Several recreation trails run through there, too. We took the opportunity of a beautiful Sunday to go rent some bicycles and travel down the Ohio & Erie Towpath Trail (which connects Cleveland to Akron via CVNP). We rode and rode... nearly 3 and a half miles away from where we started. We took a short break and rode back... and it was great. The bikes we rented were hardcore (light and comfortable), so far better than the $50 Wal-Mart monstrosities I'm used to. Even though we were winded when we got back, it was a great way to spend the afternoon.
Then, we got ice cream in a little restaurant in Peninsula and drove to where we saw literally hundreds of blue herons nesting. Those birds were huge, and there were hundreds of them up in trees.
After the birds, we came home, picked up Charley and some books and went to the Gorge Metro Park, in which we pulled up a little shady spot overlooking the lake, put out a blanket and read together for a while. We just laid together in the perfect weather while I read Chomsky's Hegemony or Survival and she read McCullough's 1776.
The day was so great that while we were at the park, I asked Amy a question: "all this stuff we did today was great... but when in our society did stuff like this suddenly become not enough? I mean, these are inexpensive, simple pleasures... why are they so easily overlooked?"
She didn't have an answer. Neither did I.
Posted by Your Friendly Neighborhood DJ on May 8, 2006 12:52 AM | Permalink
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