Author: D. Brent Miller

Writer, photographer, fly fisher and motorcyclist. Mostly retired.
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Happy New Year 2017

Happy New Year, everyone. Hope your year goes well and is a blessed one.

I am sure you’ve thought about your 2017 Bucket List, or have been making plans for events-travels-milestones. Maybe you have made resolutions. The only resolution I make is not to make any. Check.

One thing I like to do on New Year’s Day is to get the motorcycle out and take my first ride of the year. It gets this event out of the way, and sets my mind towards those longer and more adventurous rides I am planning.

New-Years-Day-2017

I have several motorcycle trips planned, and more importantly, plan a lot more work on my Ohio River Towns project. A motorcycle may be involved with those travels, but not exclusively.

See you on the highway.

Brent

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For 180 years the foundation of this path
has provided a conveyance.
Little Miami Railroad until 1981,
then rails turned into trails.

Today, bicycles, hikers and a horse or two
follow the same path
as Abraham Lincoln on his route to inauguration
and Confederate General John Hunt Morgan escaping prison.

Two sets of mile markers measure distance.
Little Miami River distance markers are measured from the
mouth of the Ohio River.
Bike Trail markers are measured from Xenia Station to Cincinnati.

Hikers, bikers and walkers with their pets,
enjoying the trail or kayaking on the river,
are they thinking about the history of this scenic place?
Are they thinking of all those who came before to create it?

Brent

Little Miami Conservancy: Little Miami National Wild and Scenic River
Friends of the Little Miami State Park: Trail Maps