This weekend I did an overnight ride to Branch County. There was a wind from the northeast both days, and temperatures were cool, so I wimped out and stayed in a cheap motel instead of camping. I tried to explain to the woman who runs the motel that I was planning a few stops in [...]
A few alternate shots at each other
These photos are an interruption in the series of photos from the August 28 ride. This cemetery is a mile northeast of Martin in Allegan County, Michigan. This afternoon I rode here to look for a different gravestone than the one pictured. I eventually found it (and found it before the rest of the afternoon [...]
George L. Slater
The Prairie Home cemetery in Richland is only ten miles from home. I hadn’t been there since a long-ago Memorial Day when one of my kids was in high school band, well before I started the Spokesrider project. (Gull Lake High School is almost next door.) I expected to find that some of the 52 [...]
Adrian reflections (and other photos)
One of the old storefront windows on Maumee Street in Adrian (MI) had historical items on display, such as this poster for the exhibit, “Myth, Mischief, & Mahan.” I gather that Mahan is the founder of Adrian College. The exhibit seems to have gone on display a couple of years ago in the college [...]
Left as a sick man and returned as a crazy one
On Sunday’s ride I couldn’t pass up a chance for a few more photos of the first courthouse site in Centreville. (It was where the brick building across the street now stands. I don’t know what the bright orange-yellow building on the near side of the street is or was.) The old building was still [...]
Water stop in Centreville
I’ve often wished I had a guide to public drinking water fountains along my routes, so I can know where I can fill up my water bottles for free. Such places are fairly rare these days. It might be a surprise to the younger generations to learn that water doesn’t come from plastic bottles and [...]
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