{"id":32380,"date":"2025-08-23T18:24:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T23:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/?p=32380"},"modified":"2025-08-23T18:35:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T23:35:57","slug":"columbus-arc-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/columbus-arc-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Arc of Columbus, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The summer flew by so quickly. It seems like only yesterday that I drove to Michigan<\/a> to pick up the kid from college after the end of the spring semester. It was a great trip and I managed to collect eight previously unvisited counties in Ohio along the way. But now I was doing the same in reverse, and returning the kid to Michigan for the fall semester. So of course I used it as a chance to chip away at more Ohio counties to add to my county counting list<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We took the fast way up, the all too familiar Pennsylvania and Ohio Turnpike route. I didn’t need to make the kid suffer through another round of rambling along rural byways. Now unencumbered, that was my exact intent for the drive back home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Route<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

My prior efforts, both the most recent drive to Michigan and an earlier trip to Dayton<\/a> captured a bunch of Ohio counties. However, those efforts were not entirely precise. I’d left some unsightly doughnut holes behind that now needed filling. That explains the scattered nature of the “First Time Visits” colored on the graphic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a delightfully inefficient path that turned a nine hour drive into a twelve hour drive, with an overnight stop around the halfway point. The diversion created something of an arc around the northern and eastern sides of Columbus, Ohio that’s easier to see on a Google map<\/a> than to describe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n