Month: February 2017
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The West Bank, Sunday February 19, 2017
Back in the day we used to mock the area across the Mississippi River from New Orleans by wryly calling it The Best Bank. Over The River on The West Bank usually meant working class suburbia, shipyards, and industrial areas. Even though Tootie and I lived in New Orleans for nearly seven years in the […]
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The houses of Broadmoor, New Orleans, Feb. 17, 2016
I was looping around New Orleans by bicycle last week. Tootie and I were staying there for a few days. Broadmoor is an area of New Orleans developed in the early part of the 20th century, after a swampy area was drained. For at least the first twenty years of the neighborhood houses built high […]
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Northern Florida Coast, Feb. 8-12, 2017
Most people I know would love to ride Amtrak but there are only a few destinations from the Raleigh/Durham area where Amtrak service makes sense. One is Jacksonville, Florida, if you had some reason to go there. The train leaves Cary NC (ten miles west of Raleigh) at 9:25 PM and if you […]
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Siler City to Chapel Hill, January 31, 2017
The wind was blowing hard and predicted to be from the southwest, with gusts up to thirty miles an hour. Tootie suggested she drive me and my bicycle thirty-five miles southwest of Chapel Hill so that I could bike with the wind. I got out of the car in the parking of lot […]
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