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Bicycling in the cold, February 20, 2015
Today was the coldest day I can remember here; low of seven degrees in the morning; predicted high of twenty-three. But the day was bright and sunny, with very little wind. Just to see if I could do it, I did the fifteen mile Tootie Loop, departing about eleven a.m. when it was fifteen…
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Street Names of New Orleans, January 29-31, 2015
Tootie and I went to New Orleans recently. We now have our own bicycles stored at our friend’s place there, where we also rent her backyard apartment. I had the opportunity to bike around New Orleans, looking for interesting street names. In Bywater and its immediate vicinity, we find pleasures of the flesh.…
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47 Hours in South Florida: Hyman Roth, Modernism, & the Third World, Jan 20-22, 2015
Air fares became so insanely cheap that I could not resist this trip; two nights in South Florida midweek in January. I arrived Fort Lauderdale Airport at 3:30 PM on a Tuesday. I put the bicycle together and bicycled to downtown Fort Lauderdale for the night, where I stayed in an Airbnb. The…
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Bike loop south of San Diego, Dec. 26, 2014
My son Jack has been living in San Diego. Myself and the rest of our family, plus Sam’s girlfriend Layla, all went out there for Christmas. On Christmas Day we walked out on the pier in Ocean Beach. On December 26, I got away for a thirty something mile bike loop around…