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Back to Ohio: Akron to Brecksville; July 2013
Since about 1997 our friends Jan and Gordon moved from Carrboro to Santa Barbara to San Jose, and then to Cleveland! Well, they settled in Brecksville, Ohio, midway between Cleveland and Akron. Tootie and I drove up for the weekend. The highlights were the excellent meals cooked by Jan, and the bike ride…
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CT: Stamford to New London in 2 1/2 days: July 27-30, 2013
“Connecticut is boring, ” so advised Bob Clark when I asked him if I should cycle across Connecticut. But Bob is from New Jersey. Since I am a Southerner, just being in Connecticut feels vaguely foreign. If I were to move there, it might indeed be boring, but such was not the case on a…
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Steve Johnson’s last adventure, March 16-22, 2013
Steve Johnson and I had been taking bikes rides and having other adventures for a long time. While our relationship was much more complex than just bike riding, our bicycle adventure to Cuba in March 2013 was just the last one in a shortened lifetime of bicycle adventures. We had already been taking long distance…
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Cycling through Mardi Gras, Feb. 7 – 12, 2013
It had been over twenty years since I have been to New Orleans during Carnival season. This trip reminded me of what a great place New Orleans is. On short notice, Lyman invited Tootie and me to a very large and comfortable condo right off Canal Street, owned by his sister. …