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2001

• 12.21.07
  Marantette’s government-paid lawyer
  2001, St. Joseph County MI, To Fulton County - 2001 (2)

  I like to stop in Centreville, the county seat of St. Joseph County, Michigan. It's usually a good place for a lunch break, and it's the right distance from home for one. In 2006 there was a sandwich shop on Main Street that I stopped at a few times. When I'm completely self-contained, I can make myself a cup of coffee at a picnic bench on the courthouse lawn, as I did on this ride in summer 2001. I hope the sandwich shop is still there. I didn't make so much as one ride to Centreville ...
  
  
• 09.19.07
  Fulton County map
  2001, Fulton County IN, Rochester base camp - 2007 (0)

  This is a snippet of a Fulton County map I was working on last weekend. For my Black Hawk Slept Here website I want to build a collection of maps showing a) historical sites relating to the Black Hawk war and settlement era, and b) bicycleable routes to these places. It's fun working with maps like this, because they bring back memories. I'll be looking at one little road segment I hadn't thought about for years, and suddenly I'll recall what when I had last been there, the view, the temperature, the smells, the part of a book I ...