My Kind Of Ride!

The world's shortest street is right here in Bellefontaine, OH.



This is my kind of road ride. Located in Bellefontaine, OH (that's FONTAINE, not "fountain"), this fifteen foot section of street is just what I would need to get the ride over with quickly. It's just about five blocks west of Main Street on Columbus Avenue, and two blocks south of Sandusky Ave. Why do I love this Ohio claim-to-fame so much? Well, because after my arduous ride on McKinley Street, I can go and get myself another Ohio original...the banana split. Oh yeah...who's with me?





The banana split was invented in Ohio, my sole reason for moving here.



While we are on the topic of towns that need a little help in the pronunciation department, let me spill the beans on Lima.
In Lima, it is against the law to carry a map that doesn't have Lima on it. Phyllis Diller was born in Lima in 1917, and it is home to the Allen County Museum. The museum is a great place to ride your bike to. It's free to get in and a great place to stop on that group road ride and stretch your legs. It houses a Dillinger exhibit with some crazy things. Lima wasn't named after a bean..and shouldn't be pronounced as such. It was actually named after Lima, Peru.. where all the quinine was coming from during the malaria outbreak it's settlers were dealing with! When you are riding through Lima on your TOMAC bike, see the museum and grab some lunch!





These are Lima beans....this is NOT how you pronounce the Ohio town....




..and that's because it was named after Lima, Peru!

Looks like some gnarly road riding in the REAL Lima, eh? Hope that TOMAC you bought had it's tune-up before you ship it there!








Now that I think about it again, Bellefontaine shouldn't be pronounced as though it were a water feature either...like the Trevi Fountain in Rome. Sorry, it just shouldn't.