Fall Trip 2025 Days 13-14

25-26 September 2025

These two days have been focused on relaxing, a goal made more achievable by on-and-off rain throughout the day on the 25th. My total driving for these two days was 112 miles at an average 4.3 miles/kWh, quite tolerable! I didn’t charge at all yesterday, but today I’m charging for free at my hotel again to get from 45-100% in preparation for leaving Columbus tomorrow morning. In retrospect, I wish I’d scheduled less time in Michigan and more time here as I just love this area so much.

This morning, I headed up to Deer Haven Park in Delaware OH for my usual 2.25 mile hike on the trail through that beautiful preserve. Along the route, I saw 1 deer, 7 owls (although they were in enclosures for rehabilitation), hundreds of butterflies, dozens of grasshoppers, and heard at least one hawk shrieking in the trees. The weather today was just perfect if a bit too humid.

If this works, here is a link to a short video of highlights of my walk on the trail! It’s just over a minute and a half (but curses on the AI editor having cut out the deer on the path!). And honestly, I am NOT as old as I look here!!

I posted yesterday about my visit to Nocterra Brewing (see my other blog), but here are the rest of my eating adventures for this visit:

A salted caramel shake from Graeter’s on Bethel Road:

A roast beef sandwich from Jason’s Deli in Dublin with two beers from Combustion Brewing in Clintonville, their Pelotonia Pilsner and Lady Peiskos Hazy IPA:

There are also a number of treats from World Market — I discovered one not too far from my hotel in Hilliard, much more convenient than the original one I was introduced to here!

And with that, I sadly have to say goodbye to Columbus tomorrow morning and won’t be back again until at least March. Tomorrow, I head to Painted Post NY and then on Sunday, I drive the rest of the way home. Yes, I’ve done the whole 700-mile +/- trip in one day before, but that was when I had the Sonata Hybrid with a 600+ mile range and could stop once for a meal and once for gas; driving the EV forces a more leisurely approach to travel and that’s not entirely a bad thing.

Here’s where I am so far in the trip: