From my room on the 10th floor west side, I can see some of Lake Erie and a yacht club - home to some huge yachts. The wind is blowing strongly from the west - great tailwind if I were on the bike. The hotel gave us access yesterday to a hose - a good thing since our bikes were filthy with grit from yesterday’s wet roads.
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| Ellen, Lesley, Sue, Barb, Elizabeth |
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| Dinosaur topiary |
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| Whaling wall |
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| Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame |
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| CPL reading room |
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| Man reaching for eternal peace |
Sixteen of the group met in the lobby at 9 am today and boarded Lolly the Trolley for a most interesting 3 hour tour of downtown Cleveland, the medical center, Ohio City, the Flats (where the Irish immigrants lived), Millionaire’s Row, the cultural gardens, the North Coast Harbor, etc. etc. The downtown lake front is dominated by the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame Museum, the football stadium, Science Museum, and Women’s Aviation Museum. Cleveland is home to John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Co., Stouffer’s frozen foods, Sherwin Williams and many other well-known companies. Rockefeller donated a huge tract of parkland to the city that is now a series of cultural gardens representing countless world cultures. The public library is in a magnificent old building as well as an adjacent newer building. There are many lovely parks, statues and memorial artwork scattered around. The Old Stone Church (Presbyterian) has several exquisite Tiffany windows. Cleveland is on the Cuyahoga River (means crooked) which flows into Lake Erie here. The aviation museum had wonderful display cases of famous women pilots, including a grand display of artifacts about the Wright brothers and their sister, Katherine, who supported them financially. Remember, they built their airplane in their bicycle shop in Dayton, OH, but tested it on the Outerbanks of SC. . .
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| Dinner at the Chop House |
Dinner tonight was at the Cleveland Chop House with Mary, Lesley, Linda, Peg, Sherry, and Ellen. . . . It was a busy and very good day off.
I am very impressed with Cleveland, but would not live here because of the weather. The winters are tough.
1 Comments:
Keeping track of my G & G gals. Glad you have finally found some cooler weather. It is still hot here. Smarty and I took a ride (on mountain bikes) this morning from our house through Shelby Famrs to new trails along Humphreys to Greenline to Chick Fila for lemonade then back. Twenty + miles, which sounds wimpy, but it was all I wanted in this heat. Enjoying your blog and pics. Stay safe. bj
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