Tag: travel
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Toronto to Montreal; the first half, with Lyman, June 16-24, 2024
Canada is a parallel universe to America. It is just like America, until it is not. Could I document some differences? I flew north with bicycle to investigate. Toronto and Montreal are not that far away, each only about 850 miles from my home in Chapel Hill NC, about the same distance as New Orleans.…
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Thirty miles north of Baton Rouge: St. Francisville and New Roads LA; April 22-24, 2024
I planned a three day trip with my friend Lyman. “We can’t bicycle up there, it won’t be safe,” I mused. I had read an online bicycle post about somewhere else where rural locals were “rolling coal” on cyclists, adolescents in pickup trucks pulling up alongside and spew diesel smoke and noise, trying to scare…
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Bayou Country; March 29-30, 2024
Born on the Bayou is a magnificent song from 1969 on Creedence Clearwater Revival’s second album Bayou Country. It is the flip side of the big selling 45 single Proud Mary. The only problem, which is maybe not a problem, is that having your facts straight is not always necessary to create great art. Creedence…
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Mississippi and Alabama Gulf Coast, Feb. 2022 and Feb. 14-18, 2024
Two years ago in February of 2022 my friend Lyman and I departed on what was supposed to be a multi-day bicycle tour from New Orleans to the Mississippi and Alabama Gulf Coast. In the afternoon of our first day Lyman had an “accident” near Slidell LA. He was lucky he wasn’t killed. We had…
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