Lunch and sightseeing

June 11 – Another full day!  It was full of laughter and camaraderie with my cousin Diane and her husband Ty.  I think I met him once before but we really got to spend time with him today and we all just had such a great time and bonded so well!  Ty was a UPS driver and the towns we were going to were places he drove on his routes.

This was kind of “Bill’s Day” as he had a list of places and things he wanted to visit and we were going to go by ourselves, but it was way more pleasurable with them along especially since they knew the area.

Diane wasn’t going to get here until about 12:30 so after breakfast we went into New Philly to a used book store.   They had a great selection and we both got 5 books I think.  That’s good for us!  Then Bill dropped me at Aldi while he went to Walmart to find a hose nozzle.  I breezed through as I mostly wanted to pick up some produce.  I was ready and waiting when he got back, but no nozzles available.  There was an ACE in Dover so we stopped there and they were sold out as well.  Guess we will be looking for one as we travel.

Diane came from getting her hair cut so we went by to pick up Ty and see their house.  They have a good size lot and a small but very nice house with wood floors.  She has a list of things she wants to have done so once they get back from their trip to Michigan I think she will get started on it.  Been there, done that!  She will be thrilled with the end but it’s the getting there that wears you down!

Off we headed and lunch was the first thing on everyone’s list!  Ty knew a couple of places in Newcomerstown and the first was closed so we hit number 2.  It was excellent!  I had a huge taco salad that was delicious and the shell was crispy to the end and they all had a Triple BLT supposedly made with a pound of bacon.  Diane and Ty split one and fries and Bill got a whole one and fries and brought home half.  They had a lot of thick bacon on them but Bill doesn’t think it was a pound.  We all enjoyed lunch regardless.

Now we had the boosted energy to trek all over in search of graves and memorials! 

Our first stop was the Ohio Historical Marker in Newcomerstown honoring Cy Young who was born there and lived there until he left to become a baseball legend.   They had a nice small city park on the edge of town that they have a larger memorial in the center of a miniature baseball field.  It’s very nicely taken care of and pretty impressive.

Bill and his main man!

Time to head on to Cambridge, home of William (Bill) Boyd, AKA Hopalong Cassidy.  Bill loves Hoppy on the radio and old black and whites.  He was VERY excited to visit his town and be photoed next to his bronze statue.  It’s actually in the lot of an assisted living facility and due to Covid-19, Hoppy was wearing the appropriate mask!  From there we had no problem finding the location of several memorials.  One was for Hoppy, one was a piece of steel beam from 9-11 with a memorial and one to a soldier who died in Vietnam.  All very nicely presented.

9-11 Memorial

Cy Young Headstone

From there Ty took us to the cemetery in Pioli where Cy Young is buried.  It’s a small little church with some rather old graves out in the middle of farm land.  He was easy to locate and there were several tokens left at his headstone.  Bill left a coin token as well. 

Time to head back and we did see a couple of Amish men, one in his buggy and one on horseback carrying his lunch pail.  The Amish is this area are known as the Old Order as they still adhere to the original ways as those in Sugarcreek and that area are somewhat more modernized.

Diane only had to ask once if we wanted ice cream!  There’s a great little place on the edge of Tuscarawas so we stopped and she, Bill and I had some but Ty passed.  I had Coffee with chocolate in it.  Yum!

Their house was close by and we finished our ice cream and chatted and Diane took us

Mural of Hoppy and the Bar 20 in Cambridge

back to the RV.  There was a new 5^th wheel parked where the tree limb fell so we have a neighbor.  It was after 6 when we got home and I was still full from lunch and ice cream.  Later Bill had the rest of his BLT but I only had a few cheese curds and lots of water!

It was a beautiful day and it was amazing how quickly the city got out and cut up some huge trees that fell last night along the mail road, Tuscarawas Ave.  The road was clear when we went to the grocery and when we got home this afternoon it was all piled neatly along the road.  We also saw some trees down out in the country so it did a bit of destruction for sure.

Super A rated day!