Go West young man

[the Ferret]

When I go riding I almost always head east from my house. East is going deeper in the country. Going west means going toward the city. More people, more traffic, more well..everything. I am not a city person.

Anyhow I decided today I would vernture west a bit and show y'all some of what is in that direction.

First I had to get thru the Black Headed Vultures that were working on a dead deer carcass on the left side of the road in this pic. These birds are slow to rise and invariably float across the road in front of you. One's feet hit my wife's helmet one time, but this time they cleared me

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Once past the vultures I went down to the road that borders the river, US 52, and turned west toward the city. About 5 miles upriver, I came upon the site where last week a 20 something year old woman high on prescription drugs ran over a bicyclist, and kept on going. They caught her shortly afterwards. The cylist died the next day and the bicycling community put up a "Ghost Bike" in his honor.

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a few miles further west things start getting "busy". First comes the old River Downs Race Track (horses) that is now called Belterra Park. They still have horse racing but now they have regular gambling as well

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right next to that is Riverbend Music Center where they have national recording artists come in to play. Some fans sit in the stands, some in the grass and some on boats in the river to listen

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and right next to that is Coney Island amusement park. Btw that bridge visible in the right side of the this pic and the last is one of the bridges between Ohio and Kentucky

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Further west are the marinas which boat on the river in the summer. As I enter the old east end of the city I turn north and roll past Lunken Airport which is a small airport on the east side of the city

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Have to go to grandsons BD party now, more when I return