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Right outside of Delacroix, LA; Feb. 24, 2019
Tootie and I have been staying more and more frequently at our friend Kirk’s place in New Orleans. It is relaxing just to hang out there. This time we stayed in the upstairs unit. It looks out over the street. Kirk allows us to store bicycles in the crawl space under her…
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Halifax and Franklin County NC, Feb. 7, 2019
Just to see something new, I put the bicycle in the car and drove the Toyota Prius about eighty miles from my home in Chapel Hill to Centerville NC. It is sixty miles northeast of Raleigh NC, or twelve miles northeast of Louisburg NC. The population of Centerville NC is listed as eighty-nine, but they…
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LAX to San Diego, January 19 -22, 2019
I picked a spot at the edge of a parking lot of the Crowne Plaza Los Angeles Airport and put the folding Bike Friday together, under the watchful eye of a cab driver. Because I was already out west on a three day vacation to Las Vegas, I had taken a few more days to…
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Downtown Los Angeles to LAX airport, January 22-23, 2019
My bicycle suitcase was stored at an airport hotel near LAX, about twenty miles from downtown L.A. I arrived by Amtrak to the downtown Los Angeles Union Station at 4:30 PM, coming up from San Diego with the bicycle. Union Station opened in 1939 and exhibits Art Deco calligraphy. It provides an interesting architectural contrast…