Cycling the Underground Railroad--Part 2
DAY 17: PERRYSBURG, OH TO BLISSFIELD, MI Today I crossed over into the 8th state on this journey up the Underground Railroad, leaving Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio in the rearview mirror. This 7 week journey could have take freedom seekers from the South more than a year. Another taste of urban riding awaited in Toledo, although traffic was light on this Monday morning. The Maumee River runs through the city, finding its way to Lake Erie, with Free Canada on the other side. The Maumee River looking out to Lake Erie from the Main Street bridge. Just across the river in downtown is The Blade building. The Toledo Blade ("Toledo" was dropped from the name in 1960) is a newspaper that has been published daily since 1835. One of its writers, David Locke (who went by the pen name Petroleum V. Nasby) scribed witty satirical columns about slavery and the Civil War, and was a favorite read by Abraham Lincoln....