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Highlights: With our police escort out of Leetonia on Sunday it wasn’t too long before we were out of Ohio and into Pennsylvania. Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania have been pretty hilly, got to get our climbing legs back in gear. We haven’t been chased by dogs for a long time. The dogs have been behind standard or electric fences. Many of the dogs will run along the yard with us and seem pretty playful rather than wanting to sink their teeth into us. One dog even grabbed its chew toy...

Weekly Miles: 335 Total Miles: 3,124 Weekly Elevation: 7,452 Total Elevation: 84,115 Highlights: We are already done with Indiana. That was quick! Bliss did something different and contacted a facebook group in a small town where we wanted to stay. We got permission to camp on the backside of the county fairgrounds in Montpelier Ohio. It was nice to camp on soft grass for a change. At 12:30 am Robert was awoken by a noise, then heard a man yell and curse loudly. Robert became very alert in...

Story time! While staying at our "luxury" hotel in Kent, we were trying to figure out lodging for the next night. There was only one campground in the area we were headed, and they said there was no availability. Leetonia (population 1,833) seemed like the perfect place to stop, so I sent a private message to Tina, the admin of the local Facebook group, asking if there was a park or somewhere we could camp. She immediately responded that she would check. Leetonia Coke Ovens A little bit...