6/25/15 - Lakeside-Marblehead, OH

We got up early this morning, I needed to wash my hair and wanted to get a jump on other people coming in to shower.  We wanted to leave by 9 am and we left at 8:45.  We hadn’t been gone 5 minutes before it started to rain.  Thank goodness we were ahead of schedule.  On the way to our camp today we saw a sign for the Warren G. Harding home.  We took a detour into Marion, Ohio and went by the house.  It didn’t open until noon and we were there at 10 am.  Since we didn’t want to wait around until it opened, we took pictures and then left.  This was Harding’s home for 30 years before he became president.  He used his front porch for campaigning – over 200,000 people visited him on this porch.  He was elected by a landslide but was only in office for two years before he died.

Harding’s grave is also in the town of Marion and we drove by the cemetery to see it.  His wife purchased 10 acres and had a beautiful marble monument made.  This is considered by many to be the most beautiful monument outside of Washington, D.C.  We continued on and got an RV site at the largest state park in Ohio,  East Harbor State Park in Lakeside-Marblehead.  After unhooking we drove to the ferry to get information about riding to Put-in-Bay tomorrow.  Then we went to Catawba Brewing.  We met Keith & Karen Ritenhouse there, who are on Untapped.   Before going back to camp we drove to Marblehead Lighthouse and stopped at VFW post 7572 for another beer.