Month: February 2018
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Bicycling Fat Tuesday with Tootie and Kathryn, Feb. 13, 2018
Mardi Gras translated from French means Fat Tuesday. In New Orleans it is both a season and a day. The celebration is a ramp-up; parades and parties start shortly after New Years Day and continues for over a month. Activity increases in intensity until the culmination on the Tuesday before Lent. Mardi Gras Day, that […]
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New Orleans East, Feb. 8, 2018
I wanted to see what would happen if I just pointed the bicycle east from Uptown New Orleans and started pedaling. I had heard of an abandoned amusement park on the eastern fringes of New Orleans, I picked that as a destination. It was a beautiful day. I left our guest apartment Uptown and bicycled […]
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South Florida, Jan 22-25, 2018
Despite the fact that I try to travel as much as possible, I actually hate to fly. Turbulence weirds me out. Nevertheless $ 127.00 round trip Raleigh/Durham to Fort Lauderdale was too good a deal to pass up. And it was nonstop, only about two hours on Southwest Airlines. My friend Lyman […]
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