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Tearing down modernism in Danville VA
I have cycled to and from Danville many times. In terms of driving time, it is the closest place to Carrboro that really feels like you are not in Kansas anymore. In its own mind, its biggest claim to fame is that it was, for forty-eight hours, the last capital of the Confederacy. It…
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Puglia, Italy, April 18-25, 2012
Puglia is the heel of the boot of Italy. It is relatively flat. Other than the weather, everything on this weeklong trip was great. The weather was mostly cloudly, intermittent rain, windy, daytime highs in the low sixties. But what variety, so many things to see! In one small portion of one region of Italy, I biked…
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Palm Beach to Fort Lauderdale to Miami Beach, Feb 2012
I recently read a Kindle Single about trade in illicit moon rocks. Not too many years ago, some people met in a sleazy bar in Miami Beach to discuss multimillion dollar trades in moon rocks stolen from the Apollo missions back in the early seventies. They arrested the people in the parking lot, holding the moon rocks. I…
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Washington DC to Baltimore, Feb 6-7, 2012
This was a weekday escape. The prospect of an entire week at work was unacceptable. So, I got up at 6:10 AM on Monday morning and drove with the bike up to Union Station in DC, put the car in the parking garage, and took off from there about noon. DC to Baltimore by bike is at least…
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