2012-09-14 KOA Dayton (Repelling Key Bank Tower)

Well this weekend was pretty cool. One of my nephews, Matt McDowell works at The Greater Miami Valley Big Brothers And Big Sisters organization and he organized a fund raiser and anyone who could raise $1000 dollars or more could repel down the 27 story Key Bank tower in downtown Dayton, OH! I know, right!?!? Well I didn't do it but I took pictures of these others doing it.  LOL  my excuse is I couldn't raise a thousand bucks...that's my story and I'm sticking to it.  LOL!!! Anyway, Matt repelled and so did one of my co-workers, Steve Roy. We all had a great time! Steve actually raised $3000 dollars including a matching contribution from work, so that was cool. After the event Carie & I did some Segway gliding around downton Dayton but the photos below are the boys repelling and a couple pics back at camp. Enjoy...

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And in case you get lost in Dayton -

 



 





 



And back at camp...

 



 

 

 



 



 



 



2012-08-18 Miami Whitewater Forest w/Anne and "Chief"

We had a really fun weekend! We went to another one of the Hamilton County (OH) Park Districts park, Miami Whitewater Forest. They have an 8 mile multi-use trail that parrallels their horse trail (plus several other shorter trails) and we met Carie's good friend, Anne who brought her awesome horse, Chief. We rode our Segways and Anne rode Chief and we all had a blast! Chief is a great horse and very calm and patient. We've ridden this trail with Anne & Chief before but this is the first time we've camped there. Chief treats the Segways as part of his "herd" and follows them and if we're on the multi-use trail Chief wants to join us so Anne has to keep sterring him back to the horse trail. It's cute! A few time Carie took the lead on the horse trail with Chief & Anne right on her heels. Anne brough him back to the campground and tied him to a tree in our site and he quickly became the hit of the campground! Anne gave several little kids rides on Chief right there through the campsites. It was pretty cool! Funny thing is the three kids on Chiefs back in the last two photos at one point all slid off in unison and two were crying on the ground but after their initial shock all wanted back up and continued their ride! There's just something about kids and horses, especially little girls.

Enjoy the pics!

Here's our camping setup:

Carie - Not so thrilled to pose for my picture!

At the rallying point with Anne & Chief...

Along the trail

 

Carie riding Chief and Anne riding Segway

 

Here how Chief got his name. Notice the Indian chief on his side?!?! His chin, lips, nose and eyebrow are facing Chief's rump and he has two feathers sticking out towards his back and mane!



Carie, Anne and Chief back at our campsite -

The "pony rides" begin back at camp!





2012-07-21 CedarBrook Campground

This is a great campground, especially for Segway "gliding". We toured the town on our Segways as well as a really nice old cemetary right next to the campground. We even went down and had lunch at the historic Golden Lamb restaurant. 12 Presidents have visited that place! The latest being George H. W. Bush. Also we have some camp host workamping friend, Ron & Vickie that work here. I let Vickie glide around on the Segway and she loved it. My pictures for this trip consist really of the campground and just "camping scenes" and a few other oddball pictures.

Vickie working the front desk

Carie studying

Our camping scene

Ron & Vickies full-timing workamping RV. A Alfa "See Ya" Gold.

Not sure of the model year but guessing around a 2006. Isn't it beautiful!

Around the campground