Last month, we took a weekend road trip to Mansfield, Ohio. The driving distance was scheduled to take about 3 hours to cover. However, I am always too excited and impatient for departure, so we decided to leave early and take our time. Which was good, since we could not check into our motel until about 3 p.m. So, we struck off, onto the open highway. We grabbed some breakfast, and motored our way to the Ohio State Line.
Once we were in the Buckeye state, I decided we should take a little side trip to see a couple of sites and look for a geocache or two. When I saw a sign for the William McKinley Memorial and Library, in Niles, I knew we had found the perfect sidetrack.
Growing up in Ohio, part of the public school curriculum was a course in Ohio History, during which we learned about some of the presidents who had hailed from our great state. So I was really kind of excited to see the McKinley Memorial. I never expected it to be as large, or as beautiful, as it was. We both spent some time exploring the grounds of the memorial. We also got to stop nearby at McKinley's birthplace.
We did not have too much more time to spend in Niles, nor did we really have anything else specific we wanted to see. However, we did take a chance to commemorate our little jaunt with locating a couple of geocaches, one near a giant iron man statue.
As far as nerdy, odd sidetrack trips go, this one was pretty awesome!
See all the photos from our foray into Nile, Ohio, here.
