As I've said to my SAINTED wife many times "you never know what a person is going through just by looking at them ...." Robin Williams is a great example, who would have ever guessed that his life would end the way it did. I also point to Bruce Willis and many, many others who we pass or see on a daily basis. We just don't know what challenges they have faced or are facing. I find, many times, people are upbeat and want to present a "happy" face and they try to avoid burdening others w/their challenges. Still I wonder how many "who would have thought ..." endings may have turned out differently if that person had reached out for help or at least revealed their challenge w/others who more times than not are willing to help.

Yup, west Dayton is not a good place... Not many years ago, it led the nation in drug OD deaths.

I was there 3-4 PM today!

That is really close to Creekside! Maybe about half a mile past the detour.

I’m staying on Jennette. Don’t know arrival time.

Did you go in???? Oh the joys!!! LoL

By the way, you will be in close proximity to the National Museum of the US Air Force. If you have any interest in such things, it is my opinion that this is on par with, (and above in some areas) Boeing in Seattle and the Smithsonian in DC. And free admission.

Interesting.

If you look on google maps, I only live about a mile plus southwest of the intersection of Creekside and Iron Horse in the northeast edge of the Belmont area near the Smithville and Wayne "T" intersection.

I am staying near that detour so I will avoid it and use the road

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I will be watching here for an update. It would be fun to ride along and chat for maybe 5 miles or so.

I've met other cycle tourists at Eastwood Park where the Mad River Trail terminates and you pick up Creekside Trail. Easy to find.

The construction detour for the path puts us on a fairly busy road for a couple blocks, but then goes through a rather hilly residential area, but compared to what you have already done, it is nothing. Most places, at construction a cyclist can work through, but not here. They are doing overhead work tearing out and replacing a bridge. Even on non workdays it would be tough because there are 4 ft high concrete barricades blocking passage. I rode through a few times before they put up the barricades as did many others before the overhead work started.

I have a WarmShowers host in Dayton. I don’t yet know when I will leave from Richmond. Watching the weather.

So you are coming through Dayton... I live only a mile and a half from the junction of Creekside bike path and Iron Horse bike path. Creekside (with a detour currently at that point) makes a turn from south to east, and then roughly parallels US 35 to Xenia.

If I know your approximate pass through time, I might be able to meet up, possibly at Eastwood Park, where you might pick up Creekside.

I kept calling it the Swisher Sweet Trail, LOL.

I'm 77 and also don't put up with them... I just keep slowing down, trying to fall far enough behind to draft them. Not in a big hurry anymore anyway.

Might be cutleaf coneflowers.

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/116735/browse_photos?place_id=31

Another busy bumblebee too, as well as out of focus probably bergamot and blazing stars.