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Bicycling Fat Tuesday with Tootie and Kathryn, Feb. 13, 2018
Mardi Gras translated from French means Fat Tuesday. In New Orleans it is both a season and a day. The celebration is a ramp-up; parades and parties start shortly after New Years Day and continues for over a month. Activity increases in intensity until the culmination on the Tuesday before Lent. Mardi Gras Day, that…
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New Orleans East, Feb. 8, 2018
I wanted to see what would happen if I just pointed the bicycle east from Uptown New Orleans and started pedaling. I had heard of an abandoned amusement park on the eastern fringes of New Orleans, I picked that as a destination. It was a beautiful day. I left our guest apartment Uptown and bicycled…
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South Florida, Jan 22-25, 2018
Despite the fact that I try to travel as much as possible, I actually hate to fly. Turbulence weirds me out. Nevertheless $ 127.00 round trip Raleigh/Durham to Fort Lauderdale was too good a deal to pass up. And it was nonstop, only about two hours on Southwest Airlines. My friend Lyman…
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Charleston SC and its suburbs Jan 9-10, 2018
Charleston is a fascinating city. It has a big imprint of very old buildings; it was one of the very few relatively large cities in the South prior to 1860. (In the 1860 census, New Orleans, Charleston, and Richmond were the only Southern cities in the top 25 by population in the United States.)…
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