{"id":8538,"date":"2014-08-22T14:43:05","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T14:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=8538"},"modified":"2014-08-22T14:43:05","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T14:43:05","slug":"the-covered-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/the-covered-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"The Covered Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NewtonFallsOHHP-082214\"
\n(The Bridge on- no kidding, Arlington Blvd in Newton Falls, Ohio.)<\/p>\n

I woke in Newton Falls, OH, having run out of airspeed and good ideas around five-thirty last night on the Ohio Turnpike. I always feel better with the Keystone State behind me. Sam’s Pizza “A tradition since 1958!” provided the grub for dinner- delivery, what the hell- and between the general fatigue and such I selected a mostly white little town.<\/p>\n

Actually, I knew the general region- off Ohio Route 5 somewhere around the Lordstown Generous Motors manufacturing complex- which is hiring, I was surprised to see, based on the banners hung from the security fences.<\/p>\n

\"July-03-2011-012-082214\"
\n(Downtown Newton Falls. A nice community.)<\/p>\n

The Garmen GPS selected the place, though I was able to fine tune it to the type. I don’t smoke at the moment, so most of the hassle of travel has vanished as the smoke blew away. I selected predictable over quirky. Previously, I looked for old-school motor hotels- that will be worth a story for the car book one of these mornings. You remember the kind- two long wings of single floor rooms, side by side, and parking directly in front of your unit. I liked being able to step outside and smoke, even if the room was “smoke free,” and to be able to watch the car.<\/p>\n

It is liberating these days, if a Holiday Inn XPress can be considered liberation.The desk staff was helpful, the internet connection worked and though the walls and floors are thin, it was a perfectly decent accommodation (at the government rate).<\/p>\n

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This is a car story, since I spent most of the day in the Panzer, and it was a depressing day. You know what I am talking about, and it was good to be in a little town that is calm, and whose people are unfailingly polite and upbeat.<\/p>\n

I went over to look at the bridge, since it is the second oldest in all of the Buckeye State.<\/p>\n

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\n(This is what the Newton Falls Bridge looked like with the advent of the motor-car: they added a safe place for the kids to walk to the new school on the other side of the Mahoning River!)<\/p>\n

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This is a nice place. It is an American place. I feel at home here, and the falls on the river that turned the generators to manufacture automobiles has helped make it that way.<\/p>\n

More from Ramblerland on the morrow.<\/p>\n

Copyright 2014 Vic Socotra
\nwww.vicsocotra.com
\nTwitter: @jayare303<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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