Day 12-15

Akron OH.

When we got into town, the first thing was going to the laundry mat. When I lived in Akron it was a mere block from the laundry mat, so we trekked over to the old neighborhood. After that we headed to the local coffee shop Angle Falls. While sitting there this woman came out and asked us what we were doing. We told her, and she said she had done the same thing 20 years ago. She offered us her house to stay in, and told us she had to go shopping so drew us a map and told us she'd leave the front door unlocked and she'd see us when she got back. It was amazing. After talking to her more later on she had probably the best story we've heard yet. This guy randomly asked her if she wanted to go on a bike ride, and she said yes and they rode from OH to Washington state. When he asked her she thought he meant around the block, but when they started they just never stopped!!!!! When they got there they the rode down the coast, worked on a boat, flew out to Hawaii, bike around the islands, flew back to California, worked more, flew to New Zealand, rode around the entire island of perimeter of that country, went to Australia to explore and travel and then finally came home. Anyway we stayed with her and her daughter and they have an amazing house.

Anne came to visit and got a hotel, she stayed for 2 and a half days. It was nice having company after all the time on the rode with George. We also met up with my old friends from Akron and went out and had fun. All in all the stay in Akron was fun, filled with Booze, potheads, muddy sinkholes, jumping fences, climbing onto rooftops, and falling asleep wicked early after drinking a couple beers and watching a movie. In fact visiting Akron was exactly like living in it, just in a shorter time span.