Cincinnati

October 5-6, 2016 – Days 47-48

Looking for Longaberger? Karen has had a long love of Longaberger Baskets and wanted to visit their offices in Newark, Ohio. So taking a detour to provide Wifey with her wishes, Mike drove to the Longaberger Basket Building only to find it abandoned. To a very disappointed spouse he was very kind and didn’t make an issue of the extra miles driven to see???? The good news there was nowhere fro Karen to buy any baskets, no $$$ spent. We drove on to Newtown Ohio and camped at the Family Motor Coach Campground.

Thursday morning we went into Cincinnati to see what we could in the next 8 hours. Our first stop was the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gardens. A beautiful establishment – 2^nd oldest zoo in the nation (Philadelphia is the oldest). With over 500 animals, and 3000+ plants species it was a wonderful place to wonder through. We enjoyed the gorillas, polar bears, big cats, hippos, manatees, giraffes, komodo dragons and our favorite were the gibbons – so boisterous and noisy as they swung, climbed and played on their rain-forest jungle gym. You could hear them howling across the zoo, funny and entertaining characters. After the zoo we enjoyed lunch at the Brew River Gastro Pub (K had a Manhattan after about a 2 week hiatus), from there we enjoyed a visit to The Red’s Baseball Stadium – The Great American Ball Park. What a lot of history was on display at their hall of fame. They really love their Pete Rose! The final Cincinnati experience was the Roebling Suspension Bridge across the Ohio River. A beautiful singing bridge built by John Roebling, who later designed the Brooklyn Bridge. Gosh Cincinnati has a lot to see, unfortunately tomorrow is a another day to move on, so “Cincy” will have to go back on our to visit again list.

Great American Ballpark