Time to finish this trip, belatedly! As I promised in my previous post, these pictures are from my phone, but downloaded to my desktop Mac and "processed" in Photoshop. (Not the first one... I found that on the Web.)
I'm embarrassed to admit that even though I grew up in Ohio, I nefer vas in Zinzinnati except to drive through on the Interstate on my way to somewhere else. This was my first real visit. The main purpose was to visit their new streetcar line which opened last fall. It connects downtown and the sports stadiums on the riverfront with the Over-the-Rhine district to the north, which is redeveloping with restaurants, renovated townhouses, etc.
After riding down to the riverfront, I walked across the Roebling suspension bridge to Kentucky. This opened in 1867 and was built by the guy who later designed and started construction on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York.
Cincinnati claims this as the first bridge across the Ohio River, instead of the one in Wheeling that I visited upstream. Their excuse is that the Wheeling bridge doesn't go all the way across the river; it goes to an island which is separated from the other side of the river by a narrow channel.
If I had stayed in Cincinnati another night, I probably would have headed for a German Biergarten in Over-the-Rhine for dinner. However, I wanted to get home the following day, so I had a hotel reservation down the road in Lexington KY so as to get a head start, and left late in the afternoon.
Instead, for lunch, I sought out Cincinnati's best-known culinary specialty:
chili! Specifically, the five-way chili at Camp Washington Chili:
Going upwards from the bottom you have (1) spaghetti, (2) chili, (3) beans and (4) diced onions, and finally (5) shredded cheese. The two packages of oyster crackers are for crumbling into the leftover chili sauce and soaking it up when you're finished.
Camp Washington Chili is a local landmark. Their original location dated from 1940. I visited it once, years ago, making a quick detour off I-75 while driving through town. In 2000 they had to move to a new location a short distance away because of a street widening project.
Another common place to get Cincinnati chili is Skyline Chili, a chain with parlors all over the area, and even a few in Florida to cater to homesick transplanted retirees. I've eaten at their parlors in Dayton OH and Fort Lauderdale FL.
One more day, coming up...
My quick-and-dirty resizing method must have optimized them for phones. I emailed them to myself, letting Apple's Mail app resize them to "Medium" quality. This produces file sizes similar to what I get in Photoshop on my desktop computer. Then I saved the images from email and uploaded them to PF.
Question. Did you manage to get to the oyster crackers point.