On Sunday afternoon I got in a ride to Homer, getting 51 miles out of it. Homer is at the opposite end of Calhoun County from my home, but it’s not really 51 miles away. I got some extra miles by making a detour to the above house south of Marshall. This house was a [...]
The photo was taken at the end of a ride today, the first decent ride since a weekend ride to Branch County in April. This fountain in Marshall is not much over 20 miles from home, but I managed to get a 40.5 mile ride out of it. The National House can be seen in [...]
Today’s ride will not be listed in the annals of Great Memorial Day Rides. It was a hot day, with temperatures expected to get to 90F, but the previous two days had rain and thunderstorms. About 3.5 miles from home I realized I didn’t have my smartphone with me, so rode home to get it. [...]
On an afternoon ride to Convis Township in my home county of Calhoun, my first destination was the farmstead of James and Sarah Mayo. Unfortunately, it looked like the barn has fallen into ruin, and the house a little further back looks destined to follow it. The day’s route was in part a clockwise loop. [...]
After putting up the last post about the town square in Coldwater, I looked to see what else I had from that ride on October 22, 2005. I saw that I had never gotten around to learning about this building from my first photo stop of the day, at the intersection of D Drive and [...]
The Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin (which we visited week before last) is now a museum and a reminder of British oppression of Irish people. The leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising were executed here, though not in this courtyard. Executions by firing squad took place in this yard. This place isn’t exactly a part of [...]
While sitting at my desk and listening to the blizzard howl late last night, I went to wunderground.com as I had done several times throughout the day and was confronted with the most dreaded words on the world wide web: “new and improved.” I was aghast that the Wunderground.com people would choose to ruin their [...]