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Noble County IN

• 04.25.09
  Fort Wayne Wizards
  1996 Midwest League Baseball tour, Noble County IN (1)

  After mentioning Charlie Hamilton's Baseball Bike Tour in my last post, I went to his web site and read the articles he wrote for Boston Baseball Magazine. Very good! He had fun rating the fans at each ballpark. Once I started reading, I couldn't stop until I finished. It reminded me of my 1996 tour of the Midwest League, when I was in the radio announcer booth of the Michigan Battle Cats with Ken Ervin and Terry Newton. It was Ken who had first given me the idea of doing the tour. During one of ...
  
  
• 04.03.09
  Noble commodities
  2008-Jun-01, Noble County IN (0)

  No bike rides for me last weekend. On Saturday Myra had an all-day church meeting near Howe, Indiana. She had had surgery earlier in the week and wasn't up driving there herself. But she knows how much I like riding in that part of Indiana. She suggested I drive her down and spend the day riding. I liked the way she was thinking but the weather forecast didn't cooperate. Strong winds, occasional rain, and temperatures in the mid-high 30s didn't sound too inviting -- especially the windy part. I suggested ...
  
  
• 06.10.08
  Hawville
  2008-Jun-01, Amish country, LaGrange County IN, Noble County IN (0)

  I've already written about the surprise of my first-ever ride to Topeka in LaGrange County, Indiana. This was the road by which I rode on that day in 1997. The above sign about "Life in the Past Lane" wasn't there back then. This is downtown Topeka, facing west (again). Just down the street and on the right is a gas station/convenience store where I usually fuel up with a Subway BLT. I had timed my arrival in Topeka for a noon lunchtime break. Topeka has a town marshall. (I also see that I took a photo of myself in the window.) I ...
  
  
• 03.08.08
  Ripley, Indiana
  Huntington - 2004, Noble County IN (1)

  After leaving the Turkey Creek valley I did stop for a few photos on my way to the Wabash River (on October 10, 2004). This was taken a couple of hours after leaving that road along Turkey Creek. Just looking at these photos makes me wish the snow would go away so I could go riding in places like this again. Sometimes people look at me funny when I say things like that. I suspect this type of landscape doesn't have the same appeal for everyone else. Maybe it's why I run into very ...
  
  
• 10.23.07
  Historical markers
  Noble County IN (0)

  Back on August 12, I did a ride to the Tamarack House on the south edge of LaGrange County (Indiana), then followed a windy road (perhaps an old Indian trail?) to Kendallville where Myra was to pick me up. On the way, I encountered this historical marker. I don't know much about the early history of Noble County, where this sign and Kendallville are located. It's outside the range of the Black Hawk war scare history, so I haven't paid much attention. I take pride in being able to connect almost anything to the Black ...