Susan got my goat

The highlight of the day was actually meeting Susan, the winner of the "name that critter" contest. Check out the comments from yesterday's post. Susan not only won, but earned extra credit with her identification and description of the fairly rare Toggenburg goat. It turns out that Susan is the sister-in-law of my fellow tourer Sam, and lives not far from here in Ohio. She and some others were at our SAG stop to see Sam. I was honored to meet such an authority on goats/critters.

We saw some other interesting creatures today, all alive this time. Here's what I'm guessing is an alpaca. And here are the mini-ponies (that's the latin term) that shared the same grazing area.

And last, here's the species homo spandexus gawking at the above creatures.

Our ride today was one of transition. It began with more farmland, but with an increasing population density. It transitioned to more industrial as we went through the Akron/Canton area and to tonight's destination near Youngstown. We knew the world had changed when we passed "U.A.W. Local XXX Ballfields". Most folks in the U.A.W. probably have a lot of time to play ball these days.

Interestingly, the roads deteriorated as we got to the more urban areas. On second thought, that's not very interesting at all, so I'll call it quits for today.