Category: Florida trips
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Cycling Miami forty-two years later; December 15, 2025
Tootie and I lived in Miami for eight months in 1983. This current bike ride brought back memories. On a December 2025 afternoon I was driving a rental car back to Miami after having cycled to Key West. My Bike Friday was in the back. On the outskirts of Miami coming up from the south…
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Cycling to Key West FL; December 12 – 14, 2025
In my seventy years I had never booked a flight for takeoff earlier than 6:00 AM. Nevertheless I was prepped for this spur of the moment Florida trip. With American Airlines credit card miles burning a hole in my pocket, destinations like Miami where there are nonstops from Raleigh/Durham seemed particularly enticing. It was freezing…
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Cycling Orlando, Tampa, and St. Petersburg; January 11-14,2 2022
My friend Lyman and I wanted to go bicycle in Florida, somewhere warm. How about Orlando? I had no specific plan what to do or see there but Orlando is arguably the number one tourist destination in the WORLD. The Orlando airport has nonstops to almost everywhere, including Europe, Brazil, and Dubai. Theme parks! Disney…
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Southwest Florida; January 26-31, 2020
It terrifies me to say this but Florida might be the future of America. Americans of all social classes are moving to Florida, mostly from northern climates. Millions of immigrants have come from dozens of countries. Rich people transfer down here from places like New York, sometimes for no other reason than that they…
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