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Biking one week through an obscure part of the Northeast, September 18-25, 2021
A weeklong bicycle tour through the middle of nowhere in Upstate NewYork and Pennsylvania? Why not!!! The focus of this tour was the sixty-two mile long north / south Pine Creek Rail Trail in north central Pennsylvania. On the map below it is the line between Wellsboro PA and Jersey Shore PA. My friend Lyman…
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Biking for barbecue, Thomasville to Lexington NC; September 9, 2021
Barbecue is delicious but so are healthier alternatives. Before leaving home I had a breakfast of avocado toast, Weaver Street Market french bread drizzled with olive oil, then spread with ripe avocado, sea salt, a few drops of sriracha hot sauce, and a sprinkling of diced arugula. A very non-barbecue breakfast! It was so succulent…
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Cycling through central Pennsylvania, August 4 – 10, 2021
Joe Scarborough says that, politically, the state of Pennsylvania is “Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, with Alabama in the middle.” I set out to find what I could find in central Pennsylvania. We have a new car, a Ford Escape Hybrid, but Tootie was using the new car this week. I drove up north in the 2004…
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Paco’s primer on bicycle touring
Does anyone else want to do bicycle touring? If you read all the way to the end I will conclude with a trip suggestion for novices. Bicycle touring is done all sorts of ways. My friend and mega-hiker Whit Rummel says: “we all do our own journey.” I have been doing overnight bike trips since…
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