We left Syracuse, New York, and headed west on I-90, a toll road. Traveling was much simpler than the day before and we made good time. There are service stops on these highways and this one had a walkway over the road to get to the restrooms and food shops.
Traffice approaching
Traffic heading away
The toll portion of I-90 ended just before entering Pennsylvania at 1:45 PM.
A short while later we were in Ohio. We spent the night in Twinsberg, OH.
July 2:
There was a thunderstorm during the early morning hours, but it wasn't raining when we left the hotel in Twinsberg. There were still storm clouds in the sky and this section we encountered along the way was very interesting.
There was rain for the first few hours of our trip today, but we did get out of the storm and had sunny skies the remainder of the way.
At our last rest stop in Ohio we parked next to a young family having lunch in their car. Dan remarked that they had beautiful babies, two little girls just like we had. When we returned from the restrooms the father of this cute little family pointed out to Dan that the front, driver's side tire was badly damaged. Dan had checked the air pressure a couple of days earlier and hadn't noticed this. He is still shaking his head wondering why. Luckily we were just 6 miles from the city limits of Columbus. Dan located a tire store with the GPS and we drove carefully toward that store. We looked at all of the tires and they were all in the same condition, just not nearly as bad as this one we photographed. We had new tires & an allignment within an hour and a half and were on our way once again.
We feel extremely lucky that the tire held up until we could replace it, lucky that someone noticed it in the first place. Here it is:
The tire store: We ate lunch & sat in the McDonnald's next door with our computers while we waited.
We reached Indiana and drove to Greenfield to spend the night. We got here about 4 PM. It is hot & humid. Looks like thunder storms are predicted for tonight.
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