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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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Croissant update; August 4, 2024
This week I discovered a development in the ongoing croissant controversy. It involves Starbucks. There are larger problems in America, and the world, than coffee houses serving stale croissants. Nevertheless the issue keeps coming up, at least to me. A croissant should be flaky and crispy. To be this way it needs to have been…
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Toronto to Montreal, part two, June 24 – July 2, 2024
Most of New York State is referred to as “upstate” but I was farther north than that, a few miles south of the Canadian border, almost four hundred miles north of New York City and about eighty miles above of Syracuse NY. I was cycling alone on a country road, a road as narrow as…
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Toronto to Montreal; the first half, with Lyman, June 16-24, 2024
Canada is a parallel universe to America. It is just like America, until it is not. Could I document some differences? I flew north with bicycle to investigate. Toronto and Montreal are not that far away, each only about 850 miles from my home in Chapel Hill NC, about the same distance as New Orleans.…
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