Tag: cycling
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Escaping the heat: Fourteen hours in York PA; June 17-18, 2025
Hot weather was coming. Over the years I have used York PA as an escape valve for a nice bike ride, even though the weather there is often just as hot as my hometown of Chapel Hill NC. On this particular June day York PA did indeed look to be cooler, with predicted overcast skies…
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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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Sacred Grinds, May 19, 2025
You can see so much more of New Orleans by bicycle. Cycling around the city is generally safe but access into some neighborhoods is restricted by key choke points. On this Monday morning I had wanted to cycle by city-owned Longue Vue Gardens on Bamboo Road. There is no easy way to bicycle to the…
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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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