ANOTHER NP

on monday we left cincinniti heading toward another national park this one is hope well culture where there are some indian mounds...we left in some very heavy rain and high winds so our mileage dropped to the lowest it has been so far on this trip...way down to 10.5 and i guess we put the blame on bucking the high winds...the park was again interesting but what made it more so than just the mounds was that in 1917 during WW1 the grounds were made into a training center for the soldiers...in came 5,000 carpentures and in a week or less had the whole base up and running..(almost like a habitat blitz)....they trained over 1 1/2 milion soldiers over the time frame...they also used on criminals so the area now has 2 really big prison very near by..you can look across the street from the park to see one..we also were given a new national park map which has 395 parks marked on it..some we do not have on the old map we've had forever..now there are more parks i can drag larry to visit and get a stamp and junior ranger badge at ..(oh he dosen't mind )

when they were building the barracks one of the developers said to be careful as not to disturb the mounds and made them only take the top half off of some of them to keep the botom where most of the artifacts were buried...


after we headed to zanesville, ohio where we found a campground for the night..

today finds us outside pittsburgh at lar's brother jake and sal...here for a couple of days possible some sightseeing before heading on to falconer..