The Spokesrider

Instead of writing up the story of the apple trees from Thursday’s bike ride to Girard in Branch County, I’ve been spending my time planning a Sunday afternoon bike ride in the opposite direction, to Sunfield Township in Eaton County. My main destination is circled in yellow on the map below. This map is from [...]

This is on Black Hawk’s old road, looking west. It’s a few miles west of Door Village, which is a little village southwest of LaPorte, Indiana. It’s the road Black Hawk used to take in the 1820s when he went back to his home on the Mississippi after visiting Fort Malden in Canada, and it’s [...]