This picture is from my 2007 Ohio & Erie Canalway trip. The canalway closely parallels the Ohio and Erie Canal between Cleveland and New Philadelphia. That’s a distance of only seventy-five or so miles. I covered the byway on the second day of a three-day trip. The picture is of the “Helens III”, a working canal boat in Canal Fulton. Due to a lack of planning, I arrived too late in the day to ride the boat or visit the museum. Bummer and bummer.

On the trip’s first day, I traveled from home to Dover, OH, to see Patrick Sweany, for the only time, in what had more or less been his home bar. Patrick moved to Nashville within the next year or two. On the third day, I drove a little of US-36 on the way home.

Trip Peeks are short articles published when my world is too busy or too boring for a current events piece to be completed in time for the Sunday posting. In addition to a photo thumbnail from a completed road trip, each Peek includes a brief description of that photo plus links to the full-sized photo and the associated trip journal.