Thirty-ninth Stop: Pomeroy - Meigs County, OH

04/10/2010

We’re heading toward the halfway mark with Stop #39 on our “Help Ellen Achieve World Domination in 2010: Ohio 88 County Tour” - Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio. It was pretty quiet in Pomeroy – so we grabbed a couple of pictures and moved on along our way.

 

 

 

 

 

More cannons! We couldn’t pass up another picture with a cannon before we left Stop #39 of our “Help Ellen Achieve World Domination in 2010: Ohio 88 County Tour” in Pomeroy, county seat of Meigs County, Ohio.

Thirty-eighth Stop: Athens, Ohio

04/10/2010

We traveled from Marietta down to Athens, Ohio. Neither one of us have ever been to Athens and we were pleasantly surprised when we pulled into the Ohio University campus. It is absolutely beautiful. We ran around taking pictures and even made some friends...

We discovered that Ellen's fans are not only friendly, but talented, too!

Thirty-seventh Stop: Marietta - Washington County, OH

We started our sixth days of travels for our “Help Ellen Achieve World Domination in 2010: Ohio 88 County Tour” in Marietta, Washington County, Ohio. Marietta is in southeast Ohio and across the Ohio River from West Virginia.

We got an early morning start by waking up in Marietta. It was a beautiful morning for picture taking by the Ohio River.

We had a great time walking through the park along the river and managed to get in a couple of history lessons as well!

We couldn’t leave Marietta without one last picture in front of this beautiful Weeping Willow tree. But, time’s a wastin’ and we have to turn this show around and start working our way back (in a roundabout way) north.

Thirty-sixth Stop: Monroe County, Ohio

It’s the last stop for the night on our “Help Ellen Achieve World Domination in 2010: Ohio 88 County Tour” and we’ve come to Stop #36 - Monroe County, Ohio. We found this sign at the county line indicating Monroe is the “Switzerland of Ohio” – and wondered: “What does this mean?” Hah! We found out in a hurry. There’s nothing quite like deciding you are lost, on top of an Ohio mini-mountain in the pitch dark! We drove up and down and round and round, unable to see past the headlights, until our GPS-friend tried to get us to drive right off the side of the mountain one too many times. We admitted defeat – and were finally able to turn around! We eventually got out of Monroe County and back to civilization and wound our way down to the next county to spend the night in Marietta – in preparation for the next day’s round of travels! Whew!

Thirty-fifth Stop: Caldwell, Noble County, OH

04/19/2010:

After many twists and turns through southeast Ohio we came to Stop #35 – Noble County, Ohio where we found this beautiful mural in downtown Caldwell.

Thirty-fourth Stop: McConnellsville - Morgan County, OH

04/09/2010:

We're still traveling through Southeast Ohio and after leaving Muskingum County we went East to Morgan County and the county seat of McConnelsville. From downtown McConnelsville we continued East to Noble County - but on our way out of Morgan County, at the top of more hilly terrain, we found "Big Muskie" and had to add some more pictures to our stack....

Some "Big Mus

kie" Fun Facts:

*It was the bigg

est machine to ever move on land and was built to mine coal.

*It weighs 27 million pounds - as much as 13,500 cars!

*It could move 39 million pounds of material per hour!

*Big Muskies is one and a half times longer than a football field!

*Nearly 10,000 acres of land mined by Big Muskie were donated by AEP to the International Center for the Preservation of Wild Animals in 1986 to create The Wilds - North America's largest open-range preserve for threatened and endangered species.

Thirty-third Stop: Zanesville - Muskingum County, OH

04/09-10/2010

We actually made two stops in Muskingum County. The first day out we headed southeast and stopped in Frazeysburg where we found some huge baskets at the Longaberger Homestead.

On our return home the next day, we found ourselves in Muskingum County again, this time in Zanesville, and spotted a street lined with the most fabulous statues - so we knew we had to stop, get back out and snap some more pics...

These statues and more, found in downtown Zanesville, are the work of sculptor Alan Cottrill.