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Cycling Norfolk, England; August 22-28, 2024
I had cycled the U.K. before, two months in England and the Continent back in 1976 with Vince. We carried camping gear on the backs of our bikes and had a much bigger agenda than just noodling around London. I do remember the excitement of cycling in the left lane through all those London roundabouts.…
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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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