Category: Florida trips
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47 Hours in South Florida: Hyman Roth, Modernism, & the Third World, Jan 20-22, 2015
Air fares became so insanely cheap that I could not resist this trip; two nights in South Florida midweek in January. I arrived Fort Lauderdale Airport at 3:30 PM on a Tuesday. I put the bicycle together and bicycled to downtown Fort Lauderdale for the night, where I stayed in an Airbnb. The…
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Palm Beach to Key West, Jan 9 – 14, 2014
In a good way, South Florida continues to be the freak show of America. All kinds of people are here, except maybe people who seem to be like me, whatever that means. In our five days of cycling from Palm Beach to Key West, we saw all types. I arranged to meet my riding partner…
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Fort Lauderdale to Key West, Jan 12 – 16, 2013
South Florida remains one of the most interesting places in America. I am not saying it is a great place, but it certainly is an interesting place. Like the rest of America, it is becoming broken up into various strains of red and blue, not to mention all the ethnicities involved. This ride would take…
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Palm Beach to Fort Lauderdale to Miami Beach, Feb 2012
I recently read a Kindle Single about trade in illicit moon rocks. Not too many years ago, some people met in a sleazy bar in Miami Beach to discuss multimillion dollar trades in moon rocks stolen from the Apollo missions back in the early seventies. They arrested the people in the parking lot, holding the moon rocks. I…
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