Twenty-ninth Stop: London - Madison County, OH

After traveling through far too much wide open space and past far too many prisons (!) we have come to Stop #29 on our “Help Ellen Achieve World Domination in 2010: Ohio 88 County Tour.” It’s pretty dark in these parts, but we’re pretty sure we have made it to London, Ohio (and not London, England) which is the county seat of Madison County.

Twenty-eighth Stop: Springfield, Clark County, OH

Ooh baby – there is seriously something wrong with “Ellen’s” neck in this picture – it’s getting late and we’re obviously “stretching” to stay awake as we travel a little bit north and a little bit east to Stop #28 on our “Help Ellen Achieve World Domination in 2010: Ohio 88 County Tour” – Springfield, Clark County, Ohio.

Twenty-seventh Stop: Xenia - Greene County, OH

We’ve made it to our 27th stop on our “Help Ellen Achieve World Domination in 2010: Ohio 88 County Tour” and it’s a welcome site – Xenia, Ohio, county seat of Greene County.

What a day! We spent too much time in Dayton. We spent too much time in Hamilton. And, we spent too much time in Cincinnati! By the time we got to Xenia it was getting dark and we tried to catch a train to the next stop, but…

Time to hit the road. This train isn’t going anywhere, so it’s back to the car and on to Stop #28...

Twenty-sixth Stop: Mason, Warren County, OH

Aaah, we had a little fun in Mason, Ohio. Our goal was to get a picture of "Not Exactly Ellen" outside of Kings Island Theme Park. We pulled up outside the gates, got out and prepared to take the shot - when a Barney Fife wannabe came flying up and told us we had to leave and couldn't take pictures. No sense of humor and no sense of adventure. We continued to roam around the perimeter - with Barney watching us all the way - looking for somewhere to get our picture and hit the road. We found it! Thanks to the Great Wolf Lodge - we were able to finish our mission and hit the road for the next stop!

Twenty-fifth Stop: Cincinnati - Hamilton County, Ohio

03/31/10
We spent a lot of time in Dayton this morning. The we spent a lot of time in the city of Hamilton. So, we are far behind schedule - but we're having a great time and seeing places and sites we may have otherwise missed. It was already late afternoon by the time we pulled into Cincinnati but we found plenty of spots for some great shots of "Not Exactly Ellen." And, of course, we spent way too much time in Cincinnati, too!

The view from Paul Brown Stadium - Home of The Cincinnati Bengals!

And another view from Paul Brown Stadium - Home of The Cincinnati Bengals!

Stop #25 – Cincinnati, Ohio. Great to see the stimulus bringing jobs to Ohio – but then again, if we had jobs we wouldn’t have time to do our part to “Help Ellen Achieve World Domination in 2010” with our “Ohio 88 County Tour”! Hmmm…

Stop #25 of our "Help Ellen Achieve World Domination in 2010: Ohio 88 County Tour" - Cincinnati, OH. A little football, a little baseball - Ohio knows how to have fun - that's why we love Ellen!

Twenty-second Stop: Greenville, Darke County, OH

We had spent the night in downtown Dayton - nice hotel but, compared to hotels in the suburbs, downtown hotels nickel and dime you to death - pay for parking and add tips, pay (far too much) for morning coffees and add tips, pay for Internet access! Enough with all of that - we'll be going back to the suburbs for our stays from now on!

From Dayton we drove northwest to Greenville in Darke County. On our way into town we spotted a one-room schoolhouse, The Studabaker School, and turned around for some pictures:

We then worked our way into the center of town ... grabbed a few more photos and then .... on to the next stop!

Twenty-first Stop: Dayton - Montgomery County, OH

03/31/10
We’re up early and on to Stop #21 on our “Help Ellen Achieve World Domination in 2010: Ohio 88 County Tour.” We started the day in Dayton and stopped for a pic in front of the Dayton Art Museum.

We then grabbed ahold of this fellow for another quick picture...













We couldn’t leave Stop #21 of our “Help Ellen Achieve World Domination in 2010: Ohio 88 County Tour” without a picture on Erma Bombeck Way at the University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio.

Twentieth Stop: Troy - Miami County

03/30/10

One last stop, #20, on this day of our south-western bound leg of our “Help Ellen Achieve World Domination in 2010: Ohio 88 County Tour” and this time it’s in Troy, county seat of Miami County, Ohio. Miami County is home to over 98,000 Ohioans and we’re sure that each and every one of them is an “Ellen Fan”!