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For Loramie base camp - 2008

• 01.21.09
  Ohio routes – 2008
  For Loramie base camp - 2008, Labor Day Weekend - Ohio - 2008, Ohio (2)

  googlemap I had a zillion things to blog about, but instead of doing that tonight I finished tracing all of my Ohio bicycle rides from this past August and September onto a Google map that I had started some time back. Why trace, you might ask? Why not import my GPS waypoints into the Google map? There are two reasons: 1. It's just too time consuming that way to import. On my rides I stop a lot, and especially at those places the GPS creates a whole bunch of points in the general vicinity that need to get cleaned ...
  
  
• 01.18.09
  Connecting the Greenville Treaty Line Dots
  2008-Aug-29, For Loramie base camp - 2008, Shelby County OH (0)

  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 photo shows the end of a segment of road that follows the line, just before the road turns away from it. What I look for in places like this are signs of the treaty line continuing past the road -- perhaps in the ...
  
  
• 11.23.08
  Soybeans got my attention
  2008-Sep-26, Champaign County OH, For Loramie base camp - 2008 (2)

  (Sept. 26, cont.) This is just an old barn, less than a mile east of the esker. I like the color effect that soybeans give to the landscape when they start to dry. I looked on the old maps and county histories to see if there was anything interesting about the people who lived here. The 1874 atlas doesn't even show a farmstead at this location. The owner of this land is shown as E.F. Lemen. The surname Lemen also appears elsewhere on the township map, and it appears in the county history ...