2022 Aug 16 – Washington, PA to Columbus, OH, to Dayton, OH. – Kelly

State Count – 5

THE Ohio State football stadium was SO big (see picture of Jim and Pasha standing at the door of one entrance.) We grabbed some actual Buckeyes from the memorial grove just outside the stadium where it’s a tradition for folks to take them for good luck. Went to a brewery in an “emerging neighborhood” of Columbus, and then ate dinner at a pub in Dayton. Sensing a theme? Well, most pubs and breweries welcome dogs. Cheers to Pasha!

We stumbled upon and were enchanted by a street in the Oregon District in Dayton. Originally, residents of Dayton considered this neighborhood so far from downtown that those who decided to move there “might as well have moved to Oregon.” In the 1800s it became one of the city’s wealthiest and most desirable neighborhoods. The residential block we walked down had a series of old, grand, gorgeous, brick mansions – each one different from the other.