Hi Craig,
Great blog! Really enjoy your posts, thoughts, and ideas, and thanks for the link to The MountainWorld Blog! Much appreciated!
Best,
Jake Norton
About Craig
I live outside a tiny Northwest Ohio town with my wonderful wife of seven years. We have 2 wonderful (most of the time) kids and 2 great (most of the time) dogs. We live on a decent parcel of land and have a wonderful mortgage and 2 wonderful cars that consistently remind us that we are not wealthy. Rich in sprit and life, not rich in the traditional sense.
I grew up in New England and later in North Central Ohio. I attended a smaller high school with a graduating class of 90. I came to the Toledo area in the early 90’s to attend UT and have stayed here ever since. I’m now firmly rooted in the area and really feel like the only thing lacking for me in Northwest Ohio is some decent terrain. I never realized that the area where I grew up offered so many changes in altitude until I would return to visit my parents.
Stupid glacier, couldn’t even leave one decent hill.
If you’d rather send me an email instead of leaving a comment on the blog, feel free.
Responses
By: Jake Norton on July 12, 2007
at 1:26 pm
Please don’t blame the glaciers for the flatness ’round these parts. I’m originally from Cleveland and the glaciers carved out some huge valleys there. Actually your living on an ancient sea bed.
The advantage to flat terrain - better gasoline mileage. With the price of fuel - you gotta love it.
Flatness is actually “green”.
By: Deniusz on March 21, 2008
at 8:18 am
“Stupid glacier, couldn’t even leave one decent hill.”
Lol! I hear you there. I’m from Monroe, MI.
You know what’s funny. I go and ride down the Maumee to GR for the hills!
So stop complaining. 
Just imagine you were living in SE Ohio… you’d probably get really really really sick of the hills.
As it is you can just drive/ride due north to the irish hils. Lots and lots of beauitiful hills.
I highly recommend 295 due north. Was just down there last Monday and I must say that is an AWESOME ride when you have a little bit of wind at your back. Nothing like cruising at 27-30 mph for 7 or 8 straight miles. You might say, it’s almost like going downhill. 
By: Michael Meiser on April 13, 2008
at 11:12 pm
P.S. Enjoyed your photos and videos, particularly the Waterville and GR flooding. Didn’t realize how bad it was.
I’m always extremely pleased to find another blogger / photo / video blogger in the area. We need more.
By: Michael Meiser on April 13, 2008
at 11:14 pm
Thanks for the comments everyone, I appreciate that you take to time to leave a note.
I should explore the Irish Hills. I’ve been up there a couple times for races at MIS but then have always headed for home right afterward.
By: Craig on April 14, 2008
at 6:08 pm
Yep, another Toledo Blogger here, though I actually live in Ottawa Hills and blog about Nevis, West Indies.
It is fun to see what is happening locally, especially when the only newspaper in town is The Toledo Bland……ermm, I mean The Toledo Blade.
Thanks for the local tidbits
By: Mike Maxson on May 3, 2008
at 9:52 pm
