The Spokesrider

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 [...]

Cyrenius Thompson was credited as being the first settler in Plainwell, MI. The town is now reaching out to take over his farm, but there are a couple of fields it hasn’t yet overtaken. This photo was taken on Saturday, from the edge of the cemetery where Cyrenius and Anna are buried. The man riding [...]

Yesterday I finally got in a ride, the first since August 31. I had missed some of the best time of the year for riding. I picked a modest destination, not sure how out of condition I had got in those 18 days. The wind was from the east, so I went west, to Plainwell [...]

My last post was from a ride in Allegan County on July 31, 2006. I was near Hopkins, on my way to Martin for a photo stop before riding the remaining 30 miles to home. This library is in downtown Martin. Mumford Eldred, brother of Caleb Eldred of Climax Prairie (two posts back) was the [...]

I had hopes the roads would be clear enough for a bike ride tomorrow (well, I guess tomorrow is today already) but I just now drove home on new snow. This scene is of weather just the opposite of what we’re having now. On the last day of July 2006 I rode home from Holland, [...]

This afternoon (Saturday) I rode 63 miles to the Plummerville cemetery south of Saugatuck, very near the shore of Lake Michigan. A Daniel Plummer, who lived in Saugatuck for a time, had served in the Michigan militia during the Black Hawk war. He was said to have later moved to California, perhaps during the Gold [...]