The Spokesrider

Sat Oct 24. Vincennes IN to West Salem IL. At the George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge I forgot myself and crossed into Illinois like I’ve done on previous rides. Then I remembered that I had wanted to try the toll bridge across the river at St. Francisville IL. So I went back to the Indiana [...]

On yesterday’s ride, I wondered why Charlie Myer’s Back Roads of Indiana didn’t recommend the Old Hwy 41 as a place to cross the White River. The new US-41 has wide shoulders for riding, but I prefer back roads. So I took the old road instead. It didn’t have any signs saying the bridge was [...]

This photo is just to show that I’m busy spokesriding and that my lack of blogging is for a good cause. Before today’s ride, we ate lunch at Pea-Fections in Vincennes. It was our second time this week. The soup and sandwiches were very good (again) and were served very nicely (again). We managed to [...]

Today’s entry in “Up in Alaska: Jill’s subarctic journal” is titled “Homesick.” Jill started to clean out her digital photo collection and got to looking at some old ones from Utah, which made her homesick for something other than Juneau, Alaska. It doesn’t help that her friend, Geoff, is off doing some bicycle competitions in [...]

A fire hydrant like this should be reason enough to stop for a photo. I got to thinking of it when the question came up of when I was last in a Starbucks. It’s from my ride north-to-south through Terre Haute last October. I wonder if I should have just ridden through on US-41. I [...]

at this time of year it’s easy to tell the Amish cornfields from the others by looking down the rows. The rows aren’t as straight on Amish fields. Yes, the Amish people tend to be neat, tidy, and regular. But there is no way horses can hold the planter to an absolutely straight path the way farm tractors can, even when the tractors are not laser-guided.

This is a view along the last leg of the path from the paved road to the Maria Creek Baptist Church cemetery. (The road is one between Oaktown and Freelandville, Indiana.) The gravesite of Charles Polke is near the trees, left of center in the photo, where it would be hard to see at any [...]