Wilmington, Ohio

We arrived at Wilmington Thousand Trails Campground  on Thursday. This will be the first chance we have had at staying at Thousand Trails since we joined a few months ago. This park has 124 camp sites, some with 30 amp hookups with water some 30 am, water and sewer. When we arrived here there were 3 sites with sewer available and we are on one of them. The most of the sites are nice and large. There are a lot of trees on most sites so rvs with roof satellite may have trouble finding a site they like. 

 Our site

 One of three fishing lakes. One of the lakes has canoes that anyone can use.

 Tennis/pickle ball court. The court needs a lot of work. It has cracks with grass growing up in it. We are still able to use it for practice at least.

 Hot tub

This is one of the nicest pools we have seen in are travels. It is an enclosed pool and is very large for a rv park. 

We have found this park to be a very nice park. The one thing we don't like is that most of the sites with sewer are taken by monthly or yearly renters. It will be a little hard for travelers like us to get a sewer site. This past weekend, there were a lot kids running around but seemed to be pretty well behaved and not to loud. Things are really quite here today. 

On Friday we took the bike out for a little ride to Roberts Arena. This is a large horse show complex that Jr. and I had shown horses at years ago. They were having a ranch horse competition going on. We watched a little bit of the show  but it  was running so slow we decided to head on.

We headed over to a truck show about 10 miles away. When we got there the show was closed for the day.

Another giant to add to our collection

Saturday we took off on the bike for Cincinnati to visit with daughter Stacy and her partner Ruth Ann. We went out to eat at Longhorn then went for a two 2 mile walk which ended at Graeters Ice Cream shop. We stayed at Stacy's house for the night because we had an appointment for a Segway tour of the Cincinnati river front at 8 am Sunday morning. Stacy and Ruth Ann paid for mine as an early birthday gift. Thank you 2 very much, I loved it.

There are a lot of murals on downtown buildings. I am not a city person but they are really doing a great job of cleaning up the downtown area. 

The first thing we had to do when we got to the Segway store was to get a lesson on how to ride them. Louise looks pretty good on there. TheSegway is very easy to master, 10 minutes of practice and off we went. No one wrecked so I guess they did a pretty good job with the lessons...lol

Stacy and Ruth Ann

There were seven of us including the guide.

Flying pig statue 

Our guide in the green shirt was very knowledgable about Cincinnati history

The ride took us down to the  river front where they have a very nice bike/running path.

Then we headed across the pedestrian bridge that goes over to Newport, Ky.

Stacy and Ruth Ann

The group
The ride was little over 2 hours. We had a great time and learned a little Cincy history.

After the tour we headed to a park. 

The flowers were in bloom 

The views were beautiful.  There were a lot of overlooks. From here we drove down to the area below.  This recreational area includes a dog park and two interconnecting walk/bike paths.  The outer is 5 miles.  We walked the inner 1.9 mile loop (pictured below) before we quit for the day.  Later the girls made a simple but delicious supper from fresh corn and tomatoes we got earlier from the farmers' market. 

 We left Cincy about 7 pm heading back to the campground. The ride back was great. Very little traffic and cool weather. We will see Stacy again tomorrow. Today was rest up day.

Till next time

Duane and Louise