Tag: biking
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Toronto, Ontario; August 14-19, 2026
Three days into this four day bike ride at mid-morning I stopped for coffee at somewhere called Red Bulb Express Bar in Stouffville, Ontario, suburban Toronto. I sat by myself outside at a table on the sidewalk. I have trouble starting conversations but here two bicycle riders just came up and sat down with me!…
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Cycling Wilson NC, and an update on the heart; July 28, 2026
Chapel Hill NC is ninety miles west of both Wilson NC (population 48,000) and Rocky Mount NC (population 54,000.). Those small cities are twenty miles north/south of each other. Since I had recently explored Rocky Mount, I followed this up with several bike rides around Wilson NC. Cutting to the chase: Wilson seems more put…
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Amtrak to the Mississippi Gulf Coast, April 9, 2026
I have always been fascinated by railroads. Back in the seventh and eighth grade, rather than studying (I was a terrible student) or even poring over something like baseball statistics I obsessively read train schedules. My dad supportively found me an old copy of the two inch thick Official Railway Guide which listed all the…
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North Mississippi; March 23-26, 2026
My friend Lyman and I set off on a 2-3 day cycle tour in Northern Mississippi. Five hours north of New Orleans, on her way to Memphis, Lyman’s wife Gillian dropped the two of us and our folding Bike Fridays around 5:00 PM at a gas station three or four miles south of downtown Oxford…
