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• 08.13.08
  Google maps
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  Ken asked me how I do the Googlemaps for this blog. To make it easy, I use a WordPress plugin from Avi Alkalay and do the usual to install it. I'm a rank beginner at editing my own googlemaps, but once I have a map, I copy the link to it -- not the code for embedding it, but the link. I get it by clicking on "link" in the upper right, and then copy the text from the box labelled "Paste link in email or IM." Then, in my blog post, I create a word or two of text where I ...
  
  
• 07.11.08
  Mosquito country
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  Monroe County, Michigan makes me think of bad roads and deep ditches. This photo was taken on a 3-day tour that took me there in 2003. But now when I look at the road, I have to say it's no worse than a lot of those in my home county of Calhoun this year, especially after the damage done last winter. To show how deep those drainage ditches are, I suppose I should go there with my camera earlier in the year before the grass is so tall. Most of Monroe County is in an old Lake Erie lakebed. ...
  
  
• 07.10.08
  Strange maps
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  I discovered a new blog today: Strange Maps. I'm adding it to my list of favorites. A few samples: The South Shall Snack Again, showing that Mississippi is the fattest state in the union. Praise the Lord and Pass the Dictionary, a linguistic map of Europe published in 1730, with samples of the Lord's prayer in many different languages. North America, the Balkans Version, interesting in part because I've been listening to Simon Winchester's, "The Fracture Zone" about the Balkans. BTW, I like the descriptions of the terrain in the beginning of the book. It was the sort ...
  
  
• 06.19.08
  Naptime
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  Climax, Michigan is on the route for a lot of my rides to Indiana. It's 13 miles from home, and sometimes I make my first stop of the day here in the town park to make adjustments. On a very hot Sunday in July 2006, I stopped when traveling in the other direction, on my way home, and took a nap on the picnic bench. It's something I do every now and then on an all-day ride. A picnic bench is not comfortable enough to sleep too long. My usual nap is a 20-minute one. ...
  
  
• 04.15.08
  Something like a bicycle
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  I learned today that this machine is something like a bicycle, even though it doesn't move as fast. It's for boring a path for placement of underground fiber optic cable. I got to see it in operation at my workplace, and later stopped by as I left work to ride home on my bicycle. The operator noticed the county maps on my handlebar bag, and we got to talking about the rural backroads of Michigan. These people do a lot of work in some of my favorite places -- the edges of roads. ...
  
  

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