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Drummond Island tour - 2004

• 03.15.08
  Day 1 on the way to Drummond Island
  Barry County MI, Drummond Island tour - 2004 (1)

  The ride to Huntington in mid-October 2004 was the last of my bicycle tours for 2004. (The route is shown in the red oval on the map below.) The first was a June vacation to Drummond Island. On that one I rode 610 miles in 6 days of riding. But it wasn't six consecutive days of riding. It was an eleven day vacation. On some of those days we did things that didn't have anything to do with my bicycle. Day one was a 114 mile ride to Central Michigan University at Midland, where we attended a ...
  
  
• 02.02.08
  Kin-Dza-Dza and Detour Village
  Drummond Island tour - 2004 (0)

  This is not a scene from one of my bike rides. It's from the 1986 Russian science-fiction/comedy/satire Kin-Dza-Dza. I happened upon it at YouTube last night while looking for Russian clips with English subtitles that would be useful for learning the language. I think I could become one of the cult fans for this movie -- I may already have. (I've also blogged about it at The Reticulator.) The large object is an interplanetary space vehicle on the planet Pluk in some other galaxy. It's a creaky rustbucket, but it seemed to do the job. It ...