Loren and Sharon headed home to Michigan, but we felt there was more to see and do in Cincinnati, so we returned to the FMCA campground for another week. The trip was 30.6 miles (86,395.7 total) today because we took a slightly longer route to avoid the less than desirable Round Bottom Road and a particularly tight roundabout that I did not want to revisit.
Sam and I walked the lake loop at least once and most times twice a day during our stay. I think maybe the brood of goslings below were hatched during our stay. I saw the adults swimming alone several days before my first sighting of the 11 babies one morning.
One of the top reasons for extending our stay was to visit the Cincinnati Museum Center located in the Union Terminal. Sadly, it was closed for renovation, but we understood it would reopen on May 4th. As it turned out, some children's exhibits were reopening, but the renovation of the terminal would not be complete until late 2018. With no chance to study the architecture of the Union Terminal we decided to wait until we return someday.
We did manage to spend some more time in the unique Jungle Jim's International Market. We spent hours wandering through the aisles taking in the wacky and wonderful variety of foods and products representing countries around the world. We spent too much money in there, but it provided us with a lot of entertainment making it worth it.
I bought some more hot sauce at the risk of Joani throwing me out of the RV. I had to, right? Check out the hot sauce department. There were more than 1,000 square feet with shelf after shelf of delectable choices. I think there were more than a dozen varieties of Dave's Insanity Sauce!
Jungle Jim's had a lot of interesting things scattered throughout the store like a cabin cruiser in the seafood department. Not a model - an actual, full-sized boat that at one time motored around on a lake somewhere. I saw a pair of 16-inch shells from a U.S. Navy battleship. They weighed about one ton each and had a maximum range of nearly 24 miles. I have no idea why they were on display at Jim's, but I found them fascinating. Maybe that was the point - entertainment for guys who were reluctantly dragged along shopping.
We met quite a few interesting folks at the FMCA headquarters campgrounds. Dean and Joyce (we met during our first stay here last week) were in a 2007 Newmar Dutch Star. They were from Ohio, the Columbus area, I think, and Dean was 1 week from retiring. Bob and Donna had a 35 foot Ventana and had been full-timing for 1 year. They were also from the area and were visiting family and taking care of a bad knee. Tom and Kathy had a 2007 Monaco. They had been full-timing for 9 years and were from the Boston area. They had a lot of great ideas for our travels through Michigan and Wisconsin. In fact, based on their descriptions we are now planning on seeing Door County, WI (one of their favorite places in the country even including some of the National parks).
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