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1 July 2007 – Fort Recovery – arrival

The ride to Fort Recovery was mostly easy, on flat roads, though against a wind from the east. It ended up being a little longer than 20 miles from the campground because at one point I thought I had...

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1 July 2007 – Ft Recovery – hanging around

I hung around Fort Recovery for a while, visiting in addition to the big monument, the museum and the grounds. This is a shot of the reconstructed fort, with the museum in the background. The museum...

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3 July 2007 – Deep Cut Road

The roads all morning had been quiet, level, and well maintained. I was wondering why this road was called "Deep Cut Road." I had chosen this route partly because the name intrigued me. But it was...

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Greenville Treaty Line

Two small segments of treaty line roads are on either side of the Great Miami River. The small "horizontal" jog shown on the highway sign above is one of them. I was on the north side of the line. On...

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Hurt: The Ohio Frontier

I’ve been reading “The Ohio Frontier” by R. Douglas Hurt (1996) in preparation for some riding later this summer. I am now getting to like this book, but was disappointed by some of the first chapters....

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Four Ohio counties

Fort Loramie is a good place to use as a base camp. It's an old canal town. There are no B&Bs and no chain motels, but there is a Ma 'n Pa type motel, the Dairy King Motel. To register we walked up...

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Soybean dust

We just got back from three days of Spokesriding in Ohio and Indiana.     The above photo was taken towards the end of today’s ride, across the St Mary’s River from Rockford, OH.   The marker post...

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