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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,…
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Po River Valley, Italy; Oct 26 – Nov. 3, 2014
On a clear day in downtown Milan you can see the Alps rising in the distance. Thirty miles north of Milan at Malpensa Airport majestic mountains are even closer, they rise as a backdrop. Flying in and out of Malpensa, you can see glaciers in these craggy peaks. Yet much of the…
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