Tag: travel
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A Chapel Hill bike ride cut short; June 5, 2026
On both my out-of-town trips and around town I usually ride a blue Bike Friday. This photo was taken a month ago in Spain. I can be slack about bicycle maintenance which should be done BEFORE something breaks but I often sadly wait until the part in question snaps off or the tire goes flat.…
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Two Old Guys Explore Rural Spain by bicycle; May 9-18, 2026
I love Spain. Not only that, traveling there is easier because I can at least imperfectly speak the language, having spent a semester in college in Bogotá way back in 1977. Much of Spain gets too hot for pleasant cycling in the summer so my friend Lyman and I hoped our mid-May departure would give…
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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…
