Bear Up North
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Having lived in NW Ohio all of my life, I sometimes get a bit irritated when I talk to folks from other areas of the country. They usually are saying, "Yuck, why would you want to live there? What's there to do, watch the corn grow?"
NW Ohio.....and just about every other corner of every other state.....is filled with "best-kept secrets".....places (or events) that you know about, you enjoy, and would suprise others if they viewed whatever it is.
I'll share a story.....The Lake Erie Islands (four bigger, bunch of smaller) are in the western basin of Lake Erie, just 35 miles east of Toledo. One (1) of the islands is called South Bass. About 100 people live there year 'round.....but in the summertime the population swells to thousands and thousands. The little town on the island's main bay is called Put-In-Bay.
If you have ever been there, you know what I'm talkin' about. Put-In-Bay is filled with about a dozen or so bars. All of the docks in the bay fill-up with hundreds of cigarette boats and thousands of dock-walking partying let's-enjoy-summer tanned and buffed bodies, some with traditional beads (if you know what I mean).
There is also family stuff on the island, including caves, a state park, bike rentals, golf cart rentals.....and one (1) of the tallest National Monuments, and the best walleye fishing and smallmouth bass fishing in the midwest.
A few years back a business friend was in from Atlanta. He had never been to Ohio and in his mind were "visions" of rust-belt America.....all cold factories with no fun or clean water, etc. I took him to "The Bay" (us cool guys call Put-In-Bay by that name).
He went into shock. While sitting in The Roundhouse Bar he kept saying, "I can't believe this is Ohio. This is so cool. I'm going to take pictures and show my friends back in Atlanta. They won't believe it. Wow!"
'Nuff said.
Bear
NW Ohio.....and just about every other corner of every other state.....is filled with "best-kept secrets".....places (or events) that you know about, you enjoy, and would suprise others if they viewed whatever it is.
I'll share a story.....The Lake Erie Islands (four bigger, bunch of smaller) are in the western basin of Lake Erie, just 35 miles east of Toledo. One (1) of the islands is called South Bass. About 100 people live there year 'round.....but in the summertime the population swells to thousands and thousands. The little town on the island's main bay is called Put-In-Bay.
If you have ever been there, you know what I'm talkin' about. Put-In-Bay is filled with about a dozen or so bars. All of the docks in the bay fill-up with hundreds of cigarette boats and thousands of dock-walking partying let's-enjoy-summer tanned and buffed bodies, some with traditional beads (if you know what I mean).
There is also family stuff on the island, including caves, a state park, bike rentals, golf cart rentals.....and one (1) of the tallest National Monuments, and the best walleye fishing and smallmouth bass fishing in the midwest.
A few years back a business friend was in from Atlanta. He had never been to Ohio and in his mind were "visions" of rust-belt America.....all cold factories with no fun or clean water, etc. I took him to "The Bay" (us cool guys call Put-In-Bay by that name).
He went into shock. While sitting in The Roundhouse Bar he kept saying, "I can't believe this is Ohio. This is so cool. I'm going to take pictures and show my friends back in Atlanta. They won't believe it. Wow!"
'Nuff said.
Bear
) And, especially in the fall-the trees are fantastic. liquidamber, a double of palm trees, gingko trees. The Aristocrat pears are fantastic right now! 
