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• 09.05.08
  Begging for water
  Amish country, Hardin County OH (0)

  It may have been when I took the photo of the Amish buggy in the previous post that I learned that I did not have another full bottle of water in my pannier, after all. Or it could have been at a previous stop. It was a very hot day -- in the 90s -- and I didn't think riding another 10 miles without water was a good idea. Actually, I was closer to my destination than that, but at the time that's what I thought was ahead of me. My excuse: I was still riding ...
  
  
• 09.04.08
  Bellefontaine to Pfeiffer Station
  Amish country, Hardin County OH, Logan County OH (0)

  This may look like a google map, but it's just a screen shot of one, sort of. It shows the route of yesterday's bike ride and all the places where I stopped to take photos. The temperature was in the 90s with a light wind out of the northeast (the direction where I was headed). Mileage total was about 43. I'm not sure exactly, because the bike is still on the car. We're back home now. I ended my bike ride in a drought-stricken area. An Amish farmer I talked to said it had ...
  
  
• 09.02.08
  Hull’s Trace in the Mad River valley
  Logan County OH (0)

  There are at least three things I like about this spot on the globe. (It's in Logan County, Ohio.) The road is a boundary between Virginia Military Reserve lands on the west, and lands on the right which were part of the rectangular survey system. The land on the west was surveyed according to a system of metes and bounds, which meant a lot of work over the years for lawyers. But the rectangular survey of the land on the right, while part of a much more orderly system, wasn't quite the usual. It's a system of 6x6=36 square ...
  
  
• 09.01.08
  Greenville Treaty line to Loramie’s Store
  Auglaize County OH (0)

  Three years ago I did a ride to Logan County, Ohio, purposely routing it to a couple of small pieces of road that follow the line of the Greenville Treaty of 1795. On Saturday I rode from Wapakoneta to Fort Loramie to Piqua, this time not so much crossing the Greenville Treaty line but following it where I could. googlemap On the map, my route is shown in blue. The treaty line is in red. If you zoom in you can better see where there are pieces of road that follow the line. It looked like one piece would ...
  
  
• 08.31.08
  Renewing acquaintances with a shade tree
  Auglaize County OH (1)

  We're staying in Wapakoneta, Ohio, over the Labor Day weekend. It's the starting location for some bike rides. I've been through Wapakoneta twice before, once in 1985 on my way to DeGraf, and once last year. Each time I rode from here to the southeast, and that's what I did last night and today, too. So some of the places are becoming familiar. The wind was out of the northeast for much of the day, which made for some nice riding. My ultimate destination for today was to the southwest. But first I had ...
  
  

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