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Day 1: December 22, 2019 Crossing Ohio Comment via blog |
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Once I decided where I was going, how to get there was a no-brainer. US-22
passes about a quarter mile from my home and about half a mile from the
motel where I would be staying in Steubenville. It also passes within a
couple miles of where my daughter lives and right in front of the historic
General Denver
Hotel In Wilmington, Ohio. A breakfast meet up was quickly arranged.
When I asked Meg what she liked there, her answer was
Eggs Rainier. Now I like it, too.
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This empty diner is just up the road in Sabina. It's kind of special to me
as it was the subject of the first article I had published in American
Road Magazine. It was even more special to Kim Starr who searched for,
relocated, and restored the 1946 Silk City in 2003 to make a dream come
true. Family health issues forced the diner to close and subsequent
attempts to revive it have only been successful for short periods.
After driving alongside the diner to get a side view, I continued through a bit of Sabina and saw the petrobilia covered garage for the first time. |
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Like that city on the east coast, this building is so nice they named it
twice. It's the Washington Court House courthouse.
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In Zanesville, I stopped at my favorite ice cream bowl and bought my
normal pound of mixed nuts. I didn't get to photograph them being weighed
because several bags had been filled in advance. I guess the combination
is pretty popular at Christmas plus the folks at
Tom's were
pretty busy weighing out candy.
The Y Bridge Brewing Company might not look much like a brewery on the outside but inside... it doesn't look much like one in some spots either. Owner/brewermaster Ray is a sci-fi fan who commissioned the wall painting after purchasing the chainsawed alien from an artist on US-22. It really is a brewery, though. I took the last picture as I prepared to turn left in the middle of the Muskingum River. |
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It's been a long time since I've driven US-22 east of Cambridge and I had
forgotten how much I like it. It has so far been spared the widening and
other improvements much of the route has seen. Until the last fifteen or
so miles getting to Steubenville, it is still two-lane, winding, and -- in
a midwest rolling farmland sort of way -- scenic.
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The Steubenville Nutcracker Village & Advent Market
has the largest collection of people sized nutcrackers in the world. The
drummer is outside the village as are quite a few of the 150+ locally made
nutcrackers. I'll check out more of those in the daylight tomorrow. Same
with many in the village as I made just one pass and photographed only a
few including one who looks exactly like my sailor son.
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I'd picked Steubenville for a visit because of its inclusion on several
holiday attractions lists. I knew I had previously heard of the nutcracker
display and was reminded of that when one of the Butrims
(Anna
and Joe)
shared a memory of their 2018 visit. A chat followed and Joe sent me his
pre-trip scouting report which included a recommendation for the
Naples
Spaghetti House. I might have found the Spaghetti House on my own
(Dean Martin used to eat here.) but there was more. I'm a lasagna kind of
guy and, with "Baked Homemade Lasagna" on the menu, that's
probably what I would have ordered. But Joe said "...the meatballs,
OH, the meatballs are seriously to die for." Joe knows meatball.
Delizioso!
ADDENDUM: Jan 3, 2020 - I'm guessing that most readers are old enough to remember the Bo Jackson commercials and I hope some caught the "Joe knows..." joke, but just in case: Bo & Bo. |
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Dessert was waiting at the motel. Ovenmaster Mary stopped by last night
with a lovely box of Christmas treats. One gingerbread person vanished
with not a crumb left behind.
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