Middle distance of FP. Late start but not hot in shade. Good run, no mistakes but 2 acute confusional states. #8 said "182" - looked at my control description which said 183 (but that was next line, #9). So, ran away from it & came back maybe 25" later & 'reviewed things.' as it simply had to be it. Went off to #9, short, easy leg; came to correct place, small reentrant but saw a control, #181, to my mind, by a rootstock. What the....? Not many other places it could be but went off in search of them, came back maybe 30-40" later, this time it said 183 which is what i was looking for. Still, appeared to be by a rootstock, the rs filled the small reentrant. Too high on 10 cost 30". Glen was same time to second. Charlie back 20" or so. Bill was doing red - apparently yesterday, too.
Nice meet, lots of pretty woods to make up for green & thorns. Too bad I could not get motivated to take a walk out there - we're always concerned with wasting seconds when there is alot to take in & then with moving on.
Borders most helpful with free wifi.
Sunday finish area
Flying pig itself
Beard Bridge over the Ohio
A walk thru time
Cherry blossom arcade to rival DCs
Visit to downtown Cincinnati's Bicentennial Park on Ohio River, very lovely. Ohio river travel played a big role in opening up Midwest/West prior to railroad - a lot of settler history, frontier vitality (after decimating the Indians, of course). When C. was bypassed as an industrial center, it turned to arts etc & earned the designation "Athens of the West." Perfect Sunday pm with cherry blossoms in full flower. Continually intrigued by sedimentary layers & their meaning. IS 275 sliced thru several hundred feet of such south of Cincinnati - all once sea bottom, now folded into hills. Wonder how deep, what might have swum in the depths. Here it's clay. In the Niagara escarpment region, it's limestone. Why one in one place, another in the other? Everest originated from the bottom of the Tethys sea.
All of 20' paralysis at TSA luggage check. Sixish year old girl kisses her daddy just at exit gate & runs back into terminal, 35 feet of forbidden territory. Next 20 minutes are spent combing over mother & child, examining exit video in company of a cast of numerous including 4 cops, 2 of whom had guns on both left & right hips. Finally, the guy with the biggest gut declared 'all clear.' Fortunately it was quiet &, in my case, there was plenty of time. Rest of flight straightforward. Manhattan a linear, crisscross jewel of light, MCH as quiet as a crypt.