Category: Midwest USA trips
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Weekend in Cincinnati with Tootie; August 29-31, 2020
Who in North Carolina goes on vacation to bicycle around Cincinnati OH? During a pandemic? Tootie and I wanted to get away to somewhere cooler while still staying safe and socially distant. I had never been on the seemingly nice bike trail that connects downtown Cincinnati with much of Ohio; I only…
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Discovering architecture in Cincinnati and southern Indiana, Nov. 5-11, 2019
High on my bucket list was to bicycle to Columbus, Indiana to see modern architecture. More on that later. Searching for a way to Columbus IN without taking the airplane, the Kentucky suburbs of Cincinnati OH are an eight hour five hundred mile drive from Chapel Hill NC, about my limit for a car ride.…
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Kentucky, feeling lucky. April 1 – 5, 2019
For the past few years l have been hearing about Kentucky from mine and Tootie’s Chapel Hill NC friend Maxine Mills, who hails originally from the Bluegrass State. Previously all I had known about Kentucky were caricatures from the media. The first forty seconds of this upcoming clip are the best. My friend…
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Tour of the Rustbelt: Chicago / South Bend / Toledo / Cleveland; July 16-24, 2018
Whatever I was going to find on this bike ride, one thing was almost certain: the temperatures would be cooler than North Carolina. It seemed like a no-brainer. My idea for this trip would be to bicycle from Chicago to Cleveland, a distance of about 400 miles. My good friends Jan and Gordon…
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