Tag: hiking
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Almost Under the Bridge, reporting February 28, 2026
Our condo is in New Orleans’ Lower Garden District. Fifteen minute’s walk towards downtown is an area I will call “Almost Under The Bridge” which I have been taking photos of for more than a year, trying to capture the intensity of walking or cycling through streets where an elevated highway plows through a historic…
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Cycling to Wilmington NC, from nearby Wrightsville Beach NC; September 2025
Tootie rented a classic beach house in Wrightsville Beach NC for two weeks and invited friends and family. The star of the show was my grandson Frankie, now nearly nine months old. We were also all smitten by the house. Built in 1923 they do not make them like this anymore. While the plumbing has…
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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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Pointe aux Chenes; March 23, 2025
I was looking for my next adventure. A peaceful bike ride in south Louisiana can be a secondary road that follows a bayou near to where the pavement ends in the marshes. Pointe aux Chenes, twenty-three miles south of Houma LA and seventy-five miles south of New Orleans looked to be such a place. Many…
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