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Huntington - 2004

• 03.14.08
  End of the Huntington weekend
  Huntington - 2004 (0)

  This was the last photo of the three-day Huntington outing October 2004. I had thought I might at best make it as far as the Michigan border, so Myra wouldn't have to come so far to get me. I stopped at Ligonier, though. She may have been visiting in Shipshewana for part of the day, IIRC, so it wouldn't have been too far from there. I do recall that it was chilly riding the last part of the afternoon. My goal for that year was 5200 miles. I did 211 miles on the three-day outing, but still had 751 miles to ...
  
  
• 03.14.08
  Topeah - Frost on Leaves
  Huntington - 2004, Huntington County IN (0)

  This is another photo of the Nuck House. This is the home of the man the Nuck's worked for, Chief Francis Lafontaine. His name in Miami was Topeah, which is said to mean something like Frost on Leaves or Frost on Bushes. This house, too, was moved from its original location. It was in the way of US-24 when that road was widened, and was moved here. US-24 runs right alongside the Forks of the Wabash, so it was not a distant move. The building still has much the same relationship to the terrain that it had ...
  
  
• 03.12.08
  Nuck House
  Huntington - 2004, Huntington County IN (0)

  Writing about this bike ride is refreshing my memory. I actually stopped my bike ride not five miles short of the campground, nor ten miles, but about 20 miles from it. It took me a while to get two different bike rides to that campground unconfused in my mind. Next morning Myra had business back in Michigan, and I rode to the Historic Forks of the Wabash at Huntington. I had called ahead and learned that the place is mostly oriented toward group tours. Since I was going to be a group of only one, they suggested I ...
  
  
• 03.12.08
  De La Balme
  Huntington - 2004, Whitley County IN (0)

  This photo was taken a couple miles or so before I got to the Eel River Post-Fort site. Like I said, I'm looking for excuses to do some more riding along the Eel River. The intersection of De La Balme and Johnson was about a mile from Little Turtle's post. I didn't know what it was about until I looked it up just now. But this site is very near where Augustin De La Balme was defeated by Little Turtle and a force of Miami warriors during the American Revolution. He had started from ...
  
  
• 03.09.08
  Hardin’s defeat
  Huntington - 2004, Whitley County IN (1)

  Cherebusco was at about the 40-mile mark, or 50 if you count my before-breakfast ride. I bought something to eat at a gas station. There was a place to sit inside, but I did my usual and asked if there was a town park where I could sit down with it. While sitting here I heard a loud bang echo off that school building, as if two railroad cars had run into each other. I wondered, but then forgot about it. A few minutes later all the eastbound US-33 traffic was directed onto the side ...
  
  

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