Category: Maryland trips
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Escaping the heat: Fourteen hours in York PA; June 17-18, 2025
Hot weather was coming. Over the years I have used York PA as an escape valve for a nice bike ride, even though the weather there is often just as hot as my hometown of Chapel Hill NC. On this particular June day York PA did indeed look to be cooler, with predicted overcast skies…
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Baltimore, a love letter; August 12-14, 2022
I enjoy the look and feel of cities, especially biking around looking at buildings. I have a special relationship with far away New Orleans but Baltimore is sometimes my easier-to-get-to substitute. My relationship with Baltimore is strictly platonic. I have real friends in New Orleans but I know essentially no one in Baltimore. I grew…
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Tour of the Eastern Shore during a pandemic; October 8 – 14, 2020
The Maryland / Delaware / Virginia Eastern Shore is also called the Delmarva Peninsula. I wanted to tour some of it by bicycle with my friend Lyman. Back in 1974-78 I went to college on the Eastern Shore: Washington College in Chestertown MD. Chestertown is a quaint eighteenth century town on the northern part of…
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Cycling the Mason-Dixon Line, October 3-4, 2019
Starting in the northern tip of Virginia near Winchester VA there is a stretch of the Shenandoah / Cumberland valley where you can pass through four states (Virginia / West Virginia / Maryland / Pennsylvania) in a forty mile stretch. In modern terminology this would be described as part of “the I-81 corridor.”…
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