Day 13: In and around Dayton 34km
- Wolf Creek Trail
- Great Miami River Trail
Tuesday, May 23
Sunny and warm with a few fairweather clouds. 28C
Another day of riding in Dayton had us following the Miami River south. We took a short side trip on the Wolf Creek Trail to see the Paul Laurence Dunbar House. He was an important African-American writer and was close friends with the Wright brothers who lived and worked nearby. After that we visited the sight of the Wright brother’s bicycle shop. It has been restored and is also an interpretive centre that shows how the brother’s work in making bicycles aided their experiments in aviation.
When we finished soaking up all of the interesting information at the Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park, we got back on the bikes and back to the trail. Wolf Creek to Great Miami and the headed south. We rode right alongside the riverbank as well as higher up the embankment. The trail goes under all the bridges with ‘exit ramps’ here and there that take you up to street level.
We rode as far as West Carrollton before we stopped for lunch. It was a lovely sunny day, but it was starting to get hot by this point in the day. We took it easy on the ride back into Dayton and we stopped at Carillon Park for a short break. After we got back to the hotel we went out for a walk downtown to use some different muscles. We stopped at The Rabbit Hole Bookstore. A well curated charity-boutique shop where every book is a dollar. One of the perks of traveling with a car is that we don’t need to restrain our purchases due to weight or size. We had early supper in our room and spent some time planning our next stop – Cincinnati.
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