Tag: biking
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Pittsburgh to Johnstown PA; June 2 – 4, 2025
I wanted to bicycle a random sliver of western Pennsylvania and chose Pittsburgh to Johnstown PA. The plane landed PIT airport at 9:45 AM on a Monday morning after a one hour nonstop flight from Raleigh/Durham. I had checked my Bike Friday folded into its suitcase. Tootie and I have found ourselves with a preponderance…
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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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Tale of two cities; Goldsboro NC to Kinston NC; Nov 30-Dec 1, 2024
Several of my New Orleans coterie of friends think of “North Carolina” as an exclusively mountain destination. Geography students: the western third of North Carolina is indeed mountains. The middle third of the state is the Piedmont; rolling hilly countryside that includes most of North Carolina’s major cities. The final eastern third of the state,…
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