August 16, 4 cranes & Cedarville wood frames
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. Inside the bicycle shop.
Our motel was right next to a truck stop so as we left, we got in line with 2 semis also leaving and had to wait while 3 other semis pulled into the truck stop. Once we made it across this busy intersection with I-70, we were able to turn on a quiet road that gradaully got farther away from the expressway and went over a covered bridge still being used that had been built in the late 1800s.
As we approached Lewisburg, we saw something being constructed about 1 to 2 miles south of town with 3 cranes like the ones used to build skyscrapers and an additional large crane on the ground. When we stopped at a park in town, we saw a man walkng his dog, so we asked him about it . It is to be a Royal Canin pet food plant, the man said, and it has been under construction for over 2 years. Our picture was taken from estimated 2 miles away.
As we came into Dayton, our route took us down a side path along a busy road. This path had a tremendous amount of broken glass all along it, the worst we've seen. It's a wonder we didn't get a flat tire!
We headed a few blocks off the route to visit the Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historic Site, which includes a museum about the Wright brothers in a building where they had had a print shop, and next door, one of the locations of their bicycle shop. They were hard workers, innovators and worked well together, and probably inheritad their mechanical aptitude from their mother.
We are staying in Cedarville with a wooden bike frame builder. These are made out of walnut, weigh about the same as a good quality steel frame and look beautiful. He is also is an engineering professor at Cedarville University. We got a tour of his home bike shop and also got to see some of the computer-operated machines that he uses to make these wood frames. We finally found a family who has more bicycles than we do! They even have a triplet!
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