Covered bridges, train ride and wineries

Jefferson is in Ashtabula County, the covered bridge capital of Ohio. Who knew? When we checked into the campground, they gave us a map of the county that had all the covered bridges and wineries mapped out. We spent one day traveling around all the wineries and some of the bridges.We got to 9 of the 18 bridges. We stopped at 3 wineries and drove past another 6. Louise did all the tasting. I was driving the bike and didn't think it would be smart to partake.

We past miles of grapes. On the map we had there were 16 wineries listed. A person could get really messed up if they stopped at all of them. 

We thought the story behind this winery was worth the picture. We bought a bottle of wine at this one.

And this one.

We have no idea who lives here, but they have a lot to say...lol. Must be an old hippy. There were signs on all sides of the house. I bet they were real popular with the neighbors. 

 This is listed as the shortest covered bridge in America. It looked like a new bridge to us. I think they put this one up just so they could say they had the shortest one. The bad thing was that the map was wrong on how to get to it. After driving around for 20 minutes looking for it, we stopped to ask where it was. It was on a different road then the map had it. After finding it I was a little disappointed that it was new. It is only 18 feet long.

After all that wine and bridge looking, we decided it was time to grab a bite to eat. We headed for Geneva on the Lake. This is a strip of restaurants and shops about 5 miles long along of shores of Lake Erie. They have a lot of different events here. There is a bike rally called Thunder on the Strip coming up next week. I should have done better research and planned to be here then.

Lake Erie

Our two purchases of the day

On Saturday, we decided to take a train ride. Louise loves to ride trains. This ride takes off from the depot in Jefferson, travels about one hour out of town, then reverses and heads back. 

They have different themes to the ride. This one was a train robbery. See the robbers heading our way?

OH NO!! They have boarded the train.

Here comes the Marshal and his posse.

The good guys won again

After the train ride we toured the historic depot area. They have done a great job restoring all the buildings there. The depot is the only building that was original to the site. They have 15 buildings that have been restore or are in the process of being restored.  

 This is our guide for the tour. She was really informative telling us all about all the buildings and where had come from.

Today, it was back on the bike to find more bridges and to do a little geocaching. We found 3 geocaches today. We found 6 bridges today. 

I can not imagine the work it took to construct this style of bridge. Notice the arches on both sides?  They are made up stacked planks. 

Tomorrow, it's off to Hershey, Pa.

Till Next time

Duane and Louise