Tag: bicycle
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A Chapel Hill bike ride cut short; June 5, 2026
On both my out-of-town trips and around town I usually ride a blue Bike Friday. This photo was taken a month ago in Spain. I can be slack about bicycle maintenance which should be done BEFORE something breaks but I often sadly wait until the part in question snaps off or the tire goes flat.…
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Cycling Miami forty-two years later; December 15, 2025
Tootie and I lived in Miami for eight months in 1983. This current bike ride brought back memories. On a December 2025 afternoon I was driving a rental car back to Miami after having cycled to Key West. My Bike Friday was in the back. On the outskirts of Miami coming up from the south…
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Cycling up to Meridian, Mississippi; April 24-25, 2021
Enterprise, Mississippi (population 496) is twenty-something miles south of the larger Meridian MS. Both towns are about halfway up the state, two hundred miles northeast of New Orleans. Thunderstorms were predicted as Lyman and I circled in my Ford Escape Hybrid with two bicycles in the back. We needed a place to park for twenty-four…
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Cycling back from Venice LA, April 2 – 3, 2025
There is no exact point where the Mississippi River empties into the Gulf of Mexico. Eighty miles south of New Orleans the river has almost reached the Gulf when the highway ends in Venice LA, on the bottom right of the Google map below. Beyond Venice there are just smidgeons of land, accessible only by…
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