Tag: cycling
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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…
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St. Gabriel LA to LSU Baton Rouge, along the river; March 19, 2026
The car drive was just over an hour the sixty miles mostly on I-10 from our condo in New Orleans up to St. Gabriel LA. The last ten miles were in heavy traffic on a two lane road heading through tanker truck yards and industrial back-door facilities that access the chemical plants and refineries lining…
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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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