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Touring the Industrial Revolution, New England, May 31 – June 4, 2014
Lyman and I bicycled for five days across a broad arc west of the Boston area, following the fall line; the waterfalls that powered the first American industry. We slept in the downtowns of each of these cities: Providence RI, Worcester MA, Lowell MA, Gloucester MA, and Boston. I now realize this…
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Jersey Shore, Cape May to Atlantic City, May 11, 2014
New Jersey towns change from one to another like night and day. This ride up the south Jersey shore accentuated that. I arrived at Cape May, the southernmost tip of New Jersey, by ferry from Delaware. I had been to Cape May a couple times previously, but many years ago. I was prepared to say…
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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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