The Spokesrider

Freyburg, OH has a big German catholic cemetery. I was looking for an excuse to post the photos I took of it on my August 29 starter ride, but haven’t found any good connections to the settlement-era stories, other than to note that this place was part of the Wapakoneta Reservation before 1832. This is [...]

We checked into a motel in Wapakoneta late on August 29. There was just enough time for me to get in a brief starter ride, shown in green on the above Google map. I decided that a reachable destination before dark was a small piece of road that follows the old boundary of the Wapakoneta [...]

In an article from last September 25 I told about the quick bike ride I did after we arrived in Fort Loramie that evening. It was a warmup for four days of riding. I took advantage of the opportunity to see a small segment of the Greenville Treaty Line I had not yet seen. This [...]