Day 20, June 9^th, Bowling Green, OH to Hicksville, OH.   We got an early start although Dave was already grumbling about no waffles at the Days Inn breakfast.  The weather was cool at about 61 degrees with low humidity, but with a promise of 90+ by afternoon.  The worst of the forecast was the wind would be out of the west at 15-20 mph and right in our faces all day.  Undaunted, we rode through the Bowling Green State University campus, which has no character, and headed down the road.  We kept a slow steady pace because our planned route was 70+ miles and we stopped to take pictures frequently.  Wind energy has come to the Midwest and the turbines were moving at a brisk pace.  The first town of any size was Grand Rapids, OH, on the Maumee River.  Grand Rapids was the end point of a canal built in the 1830s from Lake Erie (Toledo) to the Ohio River (Cincinnati) very similar to the C&O Canal.  We followed the Maumee River into Defiance, OH.  As we headed toward Napoleon, OH, we saw a beautiful old barn (picture) and the world's largest soup can (picture).  After lunch in Napoleon we had 5 miles of road undergoing resurfacing and had been ground down to the old concrete and was quite rough.  After Defiance, we came directly to Hicksville and will visit Antwerp, OH, my mother’s birthplace tomorrow.  The 22 miles from Defiance to Hicksville were painful but we did stop for Ice Cream at the midpoint.   Wilma was very glad to see the Hicksville sign.  Total miles for the day were 73.61  Greatly enjoyed the phone call from the Krew from Mike Fore’s B’day bash.