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Return Visit to Stories from Storage | As I write this blog post, I am very busy, but I still wanted to get this out, since I had such a great time with my mom on this return visit to the Cleveland Museum of Art. I will let the photos in the tweets tell the story, and I invite you to learn more about this special Cleveland Museum of Art exhibition, Stories from Storage.

Rockin' Hocking Hills | We had not been to Hocking Hills State Park in many years, and decided it would make a great getaway location while we are still social distancing. Most of this past year, we have been exploring many northeast Ohio parks and thought that it was time to go to southeastern Ohio. We discovered that the park's unique rock formations were even more incredible than we remembered.

sosAssociates.com Blogiversary: Nine | The years of 2020 (after mid-March) and 2021 (so far), make this a drastically different blogiversary than any other. This is reflected in the nature of how our blog posts changed one year ago, when we starting writing our Social Distancing blog post series.

Stories from Storage | On January 18, 2021, the Cleveland Museum of Art reopened again. With the 2021 reopening, we learned of a special exhibition created by "the Cleveland Museum of Art, with love," called Stories from Storage. On February 23, 2021, we spent a relaxing afternoon at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

New Year 2021 - Thank You | As we have done the past six years, we have created this #NewYearsEve and #NewYearsDay 2021 #ThankYou blog post to thank the many people/organizations for all the great activities that we attended in 2020! We have also enjoyed reliving the year by reviewing our 29 blog posts from 2020. We are excited to start another year! All the best to everyone in 2021!

Beyond the Cleveland Metroparks Trail Challenge 2020 | We were very pleased when the Cleveland Metroparks announced in May 2020 that they would be offering their fourth annual Trail Challenge, with prizes for completing 20 trails. Since we enjoy a challenge, we decided to do 33 trails.

Burton Section: Exploring the Buckeye Trail Little Loop | Burton Section of the Buckeye Trail "Little Loop" included the following parks: Geauga Park District, Lake Metroparks, Headlands Dunes State Nature Preserve, and more! I completed the Buckeye Trail "Little Loop" -- approximately 254.3 Miles -- at its Northern Terminus!!

Mogadore Section: Exploring the Buckeye Trail Little Loop | Mogadore Section of the Buckeye Trail "Little Loop" included the following parks: Stark Parks, Summit Metro Parks, Portage Park District, Mogadore Reservoir, West Branch State Park, Mantua Bog State Nature Preserve, and more!

Akron Section: Exploring the Buckeye Trail Little Loop | Akron Section of the Buckeye Trail "Little Loop" included the following parks: Cleveland Metroparks, Ohio & Erie Canalway, Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Summit Metro Parks, and more!

Bedford Section: Exploring the Buckeye Trail Little Loop | Bedford Section of the Buckeye Trail "Little Loop" included the following parks: Headlands Dunes State Nature Preserve, Headlands Beach State Park, Cleveland Museum of Natural History's Mentor Marsh, Lake Metroparks, Cleveland Metroparks, and more!

Buckeye Trail Little Loop - Exploring 250 Miles of NEO | My plan was to slowly complete all the sections of the Buckeye Trail "Little Loop" over several years. With the onset of the March 2020 COVID-19 crisis, my plans radically changed. I completed the loop on November 10, 2020, at the northern terminus of the Buckeye Trail at Headlands Dunes State Nature Preserve.

Trail Challenge 2020: Part Two (Second Ten) | When we wrote about completing the first level of the Cleveland Metroparks 2020 Trail Challenge, we were already working on the next ten trails for the final challenge. We are happy to share with you our experiences on the second level of the Trail Challenge as we earned our 2020 Trail Challenge mugs.