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Across the New Jersey Pine Barrens: Atlantic City to Philadelphia May 12, 2014
There is a Sopranos episode where the city boys coming to the Jersey Pine Barrens find out that doing a mob hit in the wilderness can get much more complicated than expected. This area of south central New Jersey really does sometimes feel like a wilderness, although in places it is as close as thirty…
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City Bike Trip: Philadelphia PA to Princeton NJ, May 13, 2014
I had been really worried the days leading up to this ride. Philadelphia has forty thousand abandoned buildings. I had thought the first fifteen miles of this trip through North Philadelphia would be through dangerous slums; boarded up houses with white tee shirted young men lingering on the corners. The Wire. I did…
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Delaware, May 10 and 13, 2015
Finding a legal place to park the Ford Focus for four days in Dover DE was difficult. I finally parked the car in front a housing project near the state capital. That afternoon I cycled the fifty something miles down to the ferry landing at Lewes DE, for the ferry to Cape May NJ. Delaware…
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Cycling the other side of Richmond VA 4/19/2014
The northeast side of Richmond is pleasant architecturally. It is cut off from the wealthier side of town by I-64. I biked through quiet streets, but I could not help but try to ride quickly. Was I correct in not feeling safe? This poor side of Richmond eventually crosses into Henrico County. On the…
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