Category: Florida trips
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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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South Florida, January 9-12, 2016
Once a year for the past five years I have been coming down here to bicycle around. Each time I am amazed at the cultural polyglot. And the buildings! I surely do not want to live here, and I really do not want spend more than three or four days a year…
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Florida central east coast, January 8 – 11, 2016
Florida is such a weird place. The cultural polyglot never ceases to amaze, especially from Orlando southward. One writer called Florida “California without the ideas”. For over a hundred years, people in America, and increasingly people from all over the world have picked up stakes and moved here, hoping for a fresh start. …
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Jacksonville / Daytona Beach, March 14-17, 2015
Bicycling along the oceanfront somewhere is among my favorite bicycling trips in America. Especially when the coastline is relatively uninterrupted by inlets, bicycling through the street grid of a beach town is safe and interesting. Since my good friend Tom Constantine lives in Jacksonville, Florida, I went again to bicycle along the northern Florida coast.…
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