The Spokesrider

On a ride to Upper Sandusky, Ohio last September 29, I was looking for signs of an old reservation boundary in this area. There was one place where the maps had suggested there might be a piece of driveway that still remained from an old piece of road that marked the boundary. I don’t think [...]

This marker is on the south side of the Scioto River, just across from Pfeiffer Station. The previous day and on this morning I had been riding to site’s along Hull’s Trace, as the route used by the War of 1812 armies came to be known. I should have stuck with that them and ridden [...]

This is a view of the Wheeler House at Pfeiffer Station. According to a historical marker on the site (where my bicycle is parked) it’s the very one that I had hoped might still be in existence. The view is looking down to the road to the west. A Joshua Cope lived two miles down [...]

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 — [...]

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). [...]