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• 08.05.09
  Wheel inventory
  Amish country, Elkhart County IN (1)

  We just got back from a couple of days in Nappanee, IN. Monday we did things that didn't involve our bicycle, including a tour of Martin's Buggy Shop. This photo shows part of the large inventory of wheels. Those parts are built elsewhere -- perhaps in Holmes County, Ohio, IIRC. We learned about the place from Steve, our host at the B&B where we stayed. He had given us a map of Amish businesses and shops that welcome tourists, but then said there were others in addition to those on the map, such as this ...
  
  
• 05.16.09
  William McCarty’s language skills
  Amish country, Branch County MI (1)

  There were two major destinations for my April 18 ride. This was near the first one, near the northwest corner of the old Mickkesawbe Reserve in Branch County. The north border of that reserve is Jonesville Road. That road is bicycleable enough but it does carry more traffic than other roads in the area. So I took Williams Road, a gravel road, to minimize the amount of riding on Jonesville. There I came across the above building across from the driveway to an Amish farm. People sometimes put up little structures like this ...
  
  
• 04.08.09
  Amish-Jewish double-take
  Amish country, Hardin County OH (3)

  On a ride to Upper Sandusky, Ohio last September 29, I was looking for signs of an old reservation boundary in this area. There was one place where the maps had suggested there might be a piece of driveway that still remained from an old piece of road that marked the boundary. I don't think the above driveway was it, but I was a little unsure of exactly where I was at this point, so for a couple of miles stopped and took a photo of every driveway, just to be sure I got it. I could ...
  
  
• 09.05.08
  Begging for water
  Amish country, Hardin County OH (0)

  It may have been when I took the photo of the Amish buggy in the previous post that I learned that I did not have another full bottle of water in my pannier, after all. Or it could have been at a previous stop. It was a very hot day -- in the 90s -- and I didn't think riding another 10 miles without water was a good idea. Actually, I was closer to my destination than that, but at the time that's what I thought was ahead of me. My excuse: I was still riding ...
  
  
• 09.04.08
  Bellefontaine to Pfeiffer Station
  Amish country, Hardin County OH, Logan County OH (0)

  This may look like a google map, but it's just a screen shot of one, sort of. It shows the route of yesterday's bike ride and all the places where I stopped to take photos. The temperature was in the 90s with a light wind out of the northeast (the direction where I was headed). Mileage total was about 43. I'm not sure exactly, because the bike is still on the car. We're back home now. I ended my bike ride in a drought-stricken area. An Amish farmer I talked to said it had ...
  
  

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