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Fountain County IN

• 11.08.08
  How hard is this, anyway?
  Fountain County IN (2)

  I don't do much self-contained touring, but this photo is from a solo, self-contained tour I took in late May 2001, from Champaign IL to places on the Wabash River and then home. It rained almost every day and my bike was plagued with flats and broken spokes on that trip, but it was a good ride. Here's a bit of what I wrote about it for the Phred list: ...the next day I enjoyed the Wabash valley even more. I got lost a little, had a pinch flat on a back road, but got it fixed before ...
  
  
• 08.24.08
  Rectangles and GPS
  Benton County IN, Fountain County IN (0)

  On Wednesday August 6 I wanted to see if there was still a farmstead at a place in Fountain County, Indiana, where a false scare of Indian war had taken place in 1826. It was a place where other settlers were said to have gone for safety. I stopped here at a half-mile post along the road. The land ahead, to the south, had been bought from the government by the person whose farm other settlers were said to have gone to. I was hoping to find a farmstead in the next half mile ...