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Pilgrimage to Nazareth; August 25-28, 2025
I had enough points for an American Airlines ticket to Philadelphia but otherwise had no idea where to bicycle once I got there. Looking at a map of eastern central Pennsylvania, I noticed Nazareth PA. “The Weight” by The Band is a great song. Supposedly songwriter Robbie Robertson had an inspiration in about 1968 when…
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Cycling up to Danville VA; August 12-13, 2025
Both Tootie and I use bicycles to accomplish much of our shopping and daily errands. Until recently we had two cars but her late mother’s 2004 Honda Accord with 197,000 miles was deteriorating, sometimes sitting unused for months at a time. Two weeks ago after I had to pay over three hundred dollars to fix…
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Wisconsin again: Cycling north from Milwaukee, July 16-22, 2025
In early July I had returned to North Carolina after a three day solo bike ride from Chicago to Milwaukee. Did I need more Wisconsin? I had previously promised my friend Lyman, who lives in Austin TX, that I would do ANOTHER cycle tour, a week with him in Wisconsin starting on July 16. It…
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Chicago to Milwaukee; July 7 – 9, 2025
The hundred miles south/north along the shore of Lake Michigan from Chicago to Milwaukee is a great bike ride, maybe one of the great urban bicycle tours in America. I rode it several years ago, but with the hot North Carolina summer staring me in the face doing it again seemed a wonderful three day…
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