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The New Orleans of 2015, bike rides around the city, 9/29-10/3, 2015
Tootie and I just spent four nights in New Orleans. We keep bicycles there at our friend’s house. Much has been written about New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. A lot has changed in the ten years since the devastating flood caused by the failure of the levies. The population declined when over a…
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Pittsburgh, city of steep hills; September 16-20, 2015
I really wanted to cycle again in Pittsburgh, and taking the airplane was too complicated. On a Wednesday, I drove the Honda 400 miles up to Morgantown, West Virginia. At just before four in the afternoon, I parked next to the Caperton Trail along the Monongahela River, pulled the Surley Long Haul Trucker out of…
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Suburbia: Five Points Raleigh to Wake Forest, and back: Sunday August 30, 2015
Wake Forest is a small town twenty miles northeast of Raleigh. Most of you already know that Wake Forest University is not in Wake Forest. The Reynolds tobacco people donated so much money to Wake Forest College that in 1956 they moved the college a hundred miles west to Winston-Salem. Since the move by…
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New England; six states in seven days, July 16-23, 2015
I wanted to go bicycling somewhere alone, where I could ponder life and think about Henry. Tootie was going out West the same week with friends. The weather in July is cooler up north. I planned a loop around New England lasting about a week. If I cut across the corners of several states,…
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