TRJF's 4,000-Mile Road Trip!!!

[TheRealJoeFish]

Day 3: Cincinnati (Pics)

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Bait and Switch! This isn't in Cincinnati; on the way from Charleston, I made a detour to Huntington, West Virginia. This is the famous "We Are Marshall" memorial.

For those who don't know the story from either college football fandom or the Matthew McConnaughey movie, on November 14, 1970, an airplane carrying 75 people, including 36 players and 9 coaches of the Marshall University football team and a number of Louisville's most prominent citizens, crashed on its way back to WV from North Carolina, killing all on board. Although the University initially planned to cancel the football program, the remaining players and coaches convinced the University to allow them to play on the very next year.

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Here it is! Downtown Cincinnati, taken from the northern shore of the Ohio River.

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Similar shot from inside a cute li'l garden!

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The quiet side of the riverfront park, featuring one of the many bridges over the Ohio River. That is Kentucky on the other side. The Ohio forms the entire northern border of Kentucky and most of West Virginia and the southern border of Indiana and Ohio.

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A weird cute little flying pig thing that little kids could ride in! It bounced up and down!

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A little tough to see, a big pipe organ thing with a keyboard under it that lit up so kids could jump on it and play songs on the pipes!

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Great American Ballpark, home of the MLB's Cincinnati Reds. The Reds are the USA's oldest professional sports franchise; the current team has existed since 1881 (there was an earlier team in Cincinnati, but they were kicked out of the league for selling beer and playing baseball on Sundays).

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It was a very nice ballpark! I was in the second-highest row in the entire stadium, but right behind home plate; the view was fantastic!

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Zoomed in on the view of the river past the outfield. Really nice! That is a restaurant in left field modeled after an old steamboat.

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Louisville coming soon!