Day 15 A Lifetime Ago

Delaware, OH to Ada, Ohio via Ashley, OH, Waldo, OH and Kenton, OH.

Today 72.8 miles

Total 784.2 miles

Until you get to a place where you haven’t been for 40 years, your mind’s eye keeps it as it always was, unchanged from the past and looking as it always will in the future. But the truth is, both that place and you are unrecognizably different.  Time has changed everything! The look of the place (and you) rhymes with the past, but there is no doubt that all is very different. For Ada, things have improved…outwardly. It’s a real college town now, not a farm town where there’s a small college. The clothing store, 5&10, pharmacy and hardware store have given way to restaurants and trendy looking bars. The “charm”  that we all bitched about is gone. Is this better? Sure it is, but it’s no longer different, no longer, in its own way, kind of exotic. I used to get a lot of mileage out of impressing my friends with tales of surviving in “Hicksville”. I’d be lying now if I told the same tales. For Pete’s sake there’s a McDonald’s and Taco Bell in town!


10 miles from Ada! It was a thing of beauty to watch him turn that team! I wish the picture showed those horses straining in the dry soil! Close to a religious experience to watch!


Here’s Waldo


Some things never change! My old house looked as dilapidated as ever…same roof!


Still only one police car in town Andy!


Nothing’s changed here either. Every First Year class was in this room. The students sitting at the bench, behind the whiteboard, are two First Years studying for their last final. They expressed exactly the same fears and frustrations I felt when in their place. I’ll say a little prayer for them tonight!


This is Kaylan. She was kind enough to give me a tour of the building. It’s changed a bit!


As an old timer once told me when I was at school, “The grain elevator was here before the school and it will be here long after the school is gone!” Perhaps he was right!
Prices at the Ada Theater have gone up! It used to be a buck and they wouldn’t show the show if 6 people didn’t show up. It happened!

2 thoughts on “Day 15 A Lifetime Ago”

  1. Can’t believe that they’re still plowing with horses. Amish/Mennonite?
    That would be impressive to see.
    LOL about Waldo – we’ll have to start looking for someone else now.

  2. Something like Schrödinger’s cat as witnessed by Thomas Wolfe, you can and you can’t ever REALLY go back again.

  3. Pat,
    I have been vicariously enjoying your trek by your blog after your my sweet sister shared it with all of us other folks from the Midwest! I also just last night shared your blog with another avid biker who just got back from the Durango Colorado, Copper Mountain area…said it kicked his butt!

    Your trip’s tales and pictures will make a great coffee table book when finished.

  4. Great pics Pat! This is a great narrative, better than half the stuff on the Discovery Channel! Be safe out there, the Jose’s crew is rooting for you!

  5. Oh No – the horses , the grain elevator, the same classroom, the memories go on forever. You had to be there or you would never believe it.

  6. I even took a picture of the exact spot where the Vern Travesty debacle took place and sent it to Duffy!

  7. Enjoyed your story. Wonder if you still have bad dreams about not being able to find your final exam room like I still do occasionally.
    I put your link on my phone so I can keep up when I am traveling.

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