Ohio

Julie and I passed into Ohio this week. Amazingly, our respective walking totals landed us both in the Smallwander town of Chagrin Falls. The town is the home of Bill Watterson, creator of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, my all-time favorite. If Julie and I were actually passing though, and if everything was open, we would probably check out the Chagrin Valley Little Theatre, which is one of the country’s oldest community theatres. Meanwhile, Ben is still ambling through Pennsylvania, landing in State College, which is the home of the flagship campus for Penn State University.

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