Day 10: December 30, 2023 Twenty-Two to Home Comment via blog

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Yesterday ended with pictures of a small fraction of Steubenville's nutcrackers in the cold and wet and today begins with an equally small fraction of Cambridge's Victorian figures in similar conditions but with better lighting. The first picture is of the courthouse which is the star of a nightly light show during the annual Dickens Victorian Village run. The last picture includes a stone mile marker to show that I'm on the National Road which US-22 joins in Cambridge.

William Boyd, who played Hopalong Cassidy, was born about twenty mikes from Cambridge in Hendrysburg. There used to be a Hopalong museum inside a Cambridge antique mall but it's gone and about the only Hopalong Cassidy reference in town is this mural a block off of US-22.

Here's a pair of wet S-bridges to go with the wet manikins. That's the Peter's Creek Bridge with the marker; the Fox Creek Bridge without.

US-22 parts ways with the National Road/US-40 in Zanesville and I briefly left US-22 in something of a ritual. Whenever time and timing permit, I turn north in the middle of the Muskingum River, drive to Tom's Ice Cream Bowl, eat a bowl of ice cream, and buy a puond of mixed nuts. Today the ice cream was Cherry Cordial. The case in front of the building contains a small town which contains a small Tom's.

Civil War generals Sheridan and Sherman were born less than twenty miles apart along what would become US-22. In Somerset, Sheridan gets a horse. In Lexigton, Sherman does not.

I have another ritual to perform in Circleville. Years ago, my friend John and I were driving home from New York and stopping for a beer in every town with a bar. We reached open space beyond Circleville without making such a stop so turned around to remedy the situation at a bar on the edge of town. The place where I'll stop for a beer when I can has been called Mary's, Witt's End, and now The Derby but it will always be The Last Honky Tonk in Circleville to me.

Here are my real US-22 connections. I used to live directly under this bridge in Foster and I now live a short distance from this intersection near Sixteen Mile Stand.

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