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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…
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Virginia: Orange, Gordonsville, and Charlottesville, Dec. 14-15, 2014
“A Gordonsville chicken has six legs” That is the kind of annoying crazy statement one hears from one’s parents as a teenager. It is now memorable, and has long stuck in my mind. It actually inspired me to take a bike ride around the small town of Gordonsville, on two unseasonably warm and bright December…
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Hilton Head Island SC, Nov. 29-30, 2014
Why, you may ask, did I choose to go to this place? Because I had never been there. It did not seem like the kind of place that I would like; I predicted a place filled with gated communities and golf courses. Which, it pretty much turned out to be. That,…