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Cycling up to Danville VA; August 12-13, 2025
Both Tootie and I use bicycles to accomplish much of our shopping and daily errands. Until recently we had two cars but her late mother’s 2004 Honda Accord with 197,000 miles was deteriorating, sometimes sitting unused for months at a time. Two weeks ago after I had to pay over three hundred dollars to fix…
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Wisconsin again: Cycling north from Milwaukee, July 16-22, 2025
In early July I had returned to North Carolina after a three day solo bike ride from Chicago to Milwaukee. Did I need more Wisconsin? I had previously promised my friend Lyman, who lives in Austin TX, that I would do ANOTHER cycle tour, a week with him in Wisconsin starting on July 16. It…
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Chicago to Milwaukee; July 7 – 9, 2025
The hundred miles south/north along the shore of Lake Michigan from Chicago to Milwaukee is a great bike ride, maybe one of the great urban bicycle tours in America. I rode it several years ago, but with the hot North Carolina summer staring me in the face doing it again seemed a wonderful three day…
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Escaping the heat: Fourteen hours in York PA; June 17-18, 2025
Hot weather was coming. Over the years I have used York PA as an escape valve for a nice bike ride, even though the weather there is often just as hot as my hometown of Chapel Hill NC. On this particular June day York PA did indeed look to be cooler, with predicted overcast skies…
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