A comment on last week’s post contained a quote that led me to do some reading about President Theodore Roosevelt. In 1883, at just 24 years old, near sighted and asthmatic he set foot, for the first time, in the American West to hunt buffalo. As the story goes he endured horrible weather to pursue […]

I spent several hours last Saturday exploring some fantastic southern Ohio dirt roads, some of which were little more than well-groomed trails. I only saw two cars the entire time, one coming towards me and one that I came up on from behind. Conditions were very dry, and the dust stirred up by the vehicles […]