Tag: travel
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Cycling Norfolk, England; August 22-28, 2024
I had cycled the U.K. before, two months in England and the Continent back in 1976 with Vince. We carried camping gear on the backs of our bikes and had a much bigger agenda than just noodling around London. I do remember the excitement of cycling in the left lane through all those London roundabouts.…
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Toronto to Montreal, part two, June 24 – July 2, 2024
Most of New York State is referred to as “upstate” but I was farther north than that, a few miles south of the Canadian border, almost four hundred miles north of New York City and about eighty miles above of Syracuse NY. I was cycling alone on a country road, a road as narrow as…
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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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