My Hocking Hills
stay was at the
Acorn Trail Cabin,
aka: the Cozy Amish Log Cabin.
I was there for four nights and five days. Acorn was a
nice little cabin, even had high-speed WiFi. The WiFi came
in handy because I was able to watch the
The Human Race Theatre Company's
on-line production of
The Revolutionist,
and Jennifer Joplin's
original one-person show,
The Prime of Miss Jen Joplin,
the latter presented through the 2021
Cincy Fringe Festival.
They were both streaming because that summer was, you know,
still heavy COVID-19 seclusion time, heavier than now
(February, 2023), at least.
And, of course, I sat at the fire pit most evenings. One
night I couldn't due to heavy rain; I don't think it was
the first night, even though my drive from
The Wilds
that day had been mostly in a heavy downpour, especially
the first part, closer to The Wilds, but there was one of
the nights it rained, having started in late afternoon.
This was the first time during the Summer
Vacation
Get Away 2021 that I did any
music. As I wrote earlier, I'd brought my
Giannini
acoustic bass, my
Oxygen 61 Keyboard,
and my
eight-track recorder,
plus assorted appropriate accoutrement on the trip. But
the Hocking Hills stay was the only place I did anything
musical, and I ended up not using the keyboard or recording
anything on the eight-track. I did, however, start a couple
new songs, neither that have been worked on since the
vacation.
One has the working title of "Fire Rain Song,"
and was inspired by a fire pit at the cabin that was
surviving well a misty rain fall. The other, which my
memory says was also started at the cabin, but may have
started on the next leg at Shawnee State Park, has the
working title of "Zen and the Art of Go." The other
big music-related activity I did at Acorn was a significant
amount of the editing in
Final Cut Pro X
for the
"Just One Shadow"
music video.
In fact, I got it close to about 99% to
locked edit.
My excursions during this leg were returns to
Old Man's Cave
and
Rock House,
and a first visit to the
John Glenn Astronomy Park,
which I had noted the existence of on previous stays in
Hocking Hills but had not yet visited. I got some good
hiking/walking in, and in lovely environments; my blood
pressure during the stay had a mean average of 110 over 74
‐‐ not bad. The John Glenn Astronomy Park was
interesting, but when I was there it was closed and there
was no program going on. So all I could do was walk the
circular, outside conservatory and grab a few photos. I'll
have to make a point of visiting there some evening when an
astronomy program is going on.
It would not be a complete stay in Hocking Hills were I not
to take a trip into Logan
for a veggie pizza at
Pizza Crossing.
My ten-inch veggie with extra sause was as good as every
other time. Seriously, when in Hocking Hills, you must
visit Pizza Crossing. This trip I also dropped into a local
eatery, Bush's Restaurant
for a more mid-western, home-cooked sort of meal. It's been
a while, but I believe I had fried chicken and mashed potatoes.
I also stopped into
Hocking Hills Frozen Yogurt Company
for some frozen yogurt; on a scale of 1 to 10 I'd rate their
yogurt 6.5, maybe 7, though I do admit I went back on a
subsequent visit to Hocking Hills.
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