In Killbuck, the OTET is routed down Main Street where I passed a house with references to an unlikely pairing of American icons: Donald Trump and John Deere.
Donald Trump needs no introduction. John Deere, and the company that bears his name, developed many farm tractors and implements since its founding in 1837. Here is a link to an old John Deere chicken manure spreader in action. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kJWfA73N20
So that’s at least one thing Donald Trump and John Deere had in common: although using vastly different technologies, they both perfected highly efficient methods of spreading chicken manure.
After Killbuck, the OTET is routed on OH 520. The land is hilly, and fog in the next valley is seen the distance.
On the way to Glenmont I learned that the internet apparently has a phone number.
If the high, up-front cost is what’s keeping you from owning a pig, this may be an attractive alternative
Still in doubt about getting a pig? Perhaps this organization that I found online can help.
Glenmont is another small town that remembers the names of those who died while serving our country.
Back to the Holmes County Trail.
There are (4) alerts on what to watch out for on the trail
Shortly after getting on the trail I saw this put-your-face-here artwork.
#VisitAmishCountry . . .to see Bigfoot?
Are these two doing 1980’s-style line dancing? Why do they each have six toes?
I don’t know what they were going for with this, but since they did, I would have added Bigfoot to the collection of alerts at the start of the trail.
The Mohican Valley Trail is one of two dozen locally-maintained trails that make up the OTET
This 370’ long bridge was built in the 1920’s for the Pennsylvania Railroad. In the early 1990’s a group of residents and businesses came up with a plan to convert the abandoned railroad line into a multi-use trail.
The most ambitious part of the plan was to cover the bridge. Skeptics decried that the costly plan was the stuff of dreams, which led the backers to give the name of the project “Bridge of Dreams.”
With funds raised through contributions and a grant from the ODNR, the Bridge of Dreams was dedicated in 1999 and became part of Mohican Valley Trail when the trail officially opened in 2001
Here’s another old PRR bridge with a wood surface installed over the original steel structure.
The Mohican Valley Trail ends in Danville. It was already a hot morning when I arrived, so I stopped at a gas station to cool off and get a cold drink before I got on the Kokosing Trail.
The woman behind the counter at the gas station asked where I was riding to. When I told her, she leaned toward me and asked in a serious voice “Are you crazy?” immediately followed by “but I can see from your shirt that you are a Browns fan, so you’re OK. Wasn’t it great the way we beat the Steelers two Games in a row?” I agreed with her reference to the 2020 playoffs, and we talked about the Browns and how we were looking forward to the playoffs in 2021. [Editor note: Ha!]
I took the Kokosing Trail into Mt. Vernon. They had a restored 1924 C&O caboose on display.
I checked into the Super 8 motel in Mt Vernon about 1:30 PM, and it was almost 90 degrees.
I wonder if this sign was posted in my room’s window before or after the screen was damaged. Also, outlet covers are $0.25 at Home Depot
In this case, I think the motel name “Super 8” is an exaggeration. I’d rate it “Barely Average 5”.