Kayaking on the Mohican River

Tuesday
Since breakfasts in many if not most hotels over here are buffet style, hotels are not currently offering breakfasts, or in the case of our hotel they had a “grab and go” bag, with an airline type breakfast. - orange juice, a yoghurt and a muffin - not very exciting but it kept the pangs of hunger away! We picked up a sandwich from Subway for lunch, then drove to Loudonville, to go kayaking on the Mohican River. The canoe livery offers canoes, kayaks, rafts and tubes - we chose a double kayak. I would hate to think how busy it is this holiday weekend! We chose the 7 mile trip - it was either that or 15, which was too long - and we stopped along the way to eat our lunch. Much of the river bank on the one side are taken up with “campgrounds”. - that is “camping” the American way - they were mainly large static RVs! Still, overall it was a nice peaceful trip, and we were transported back to the start by a half-full old school bus.
We then decided we would do another shorter bike ride, the Mohican Valley trail which runs from Danville to Brinkhaven, where the Bridge of Dreams is located (extra), 10 miles return.
The Bridge of Dreams, 370 feet long, was originally built in the 1920s as a railroad bridge, and covered in 1998. It is the second longest covered bridge in Ohio after the Smolen–Gulf Bridge. The Bridge of Dreams spans the Mohican River in Knox County, Ohio, and is a pedestrian and bicycling bridge and part of the Mohican Valley Trail. It is also often used by Amish buggies. The railroad bridge carrying the Pennsylvania Railroad line over the river, had been abandoned by the early 1990s, and a group of local residents and businesses developed a plan for converting it into a multi-use trail. The most ambitious aspect of the plan was to cover the 370 foot railroad bridge. Skeptics of this expensive plan claimed that its proponents were "dreaming", which led backers to adopt the name "Bridge of Dreams" for the project. Eventually planners were able to raise the almost $90,000 through contributions and a grant from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, and it became known as the Bridge of Dreams! By the time we got back to the car, I was worn out, so it was back to the hotel for a shower, then we ordered some take away Mexican food - the restaurant wasn’t open for dine-in