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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…
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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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