Hold On, I’m Coming – 26 August 2008

We are now so close to the home of Harley Davidson, you can almost feel it.

We left Buffalo and travelled along Lake Erie towards Cleveland for some 170 miles.

Along the way we checked out the picturesque lakeside fishing and holiday villages, including one called “Geneva on the Lake”, where we found “Mary’s Kitchen” halfway down a lane way leading to the lake, obviously this was the place to have lunch.

When you order meals here in the USA, they ask what you want with the meal, consequently, you nnever to get eat the whole meal as it is just way to much food.

At Mary’s Kitchen, the salad before the meal was a meal in itself and the spaghetti and meat balls that I had was great, but I had leave half of it.

 We then skirted around Cleveland, through farming districts and quaint and tidy towns, heading towards Toledo, our stop for the night.

About half way to Toledo, at a town called Monroeville (Ohio), we see a Harley Davidson dealer sign and promptly pull in to check it out.

“Roeder Harley Davidson” was commenced over 35 years ago by George Roeder, who was already a race rider for Harley.

The Monroeville dealership is in the old barn style dealership building (Although they have a second more modern dealership in nearby Sandusky) and is still owned by the Roeder family.

Well once inside we bought the obligatory T-shirt, which I hope will draw appropriate comments back home, like where the hell is Monroeville.

We also saw the Harley Davidson that broke the World Speed Record at Bonneville (Utah) in the 750cc class back in 1965.

An amazing bike and well worth a mention and picture in this blog.

Continuing on we pulled into Toledo early evening, ready for a red wine and a bite to eat and to think about riding into Milwaukee tomorrow.