Shelby Farm Park and Wolf River Greenways We came to Memphis to do our Tennessee bike ride. There aren’t that many trails in the this part of… Read more “Number Thirty Seven: Tennessee”
Author: R Mead
Number Thirty Six: Illinois
Southern Illinois may sound more exotic than it is. We stayed in Harrisburg, which shares an airport with Raleigh. We were near Cairo, Vienna, Mt. Vernon, Princeton,… Read more “Number Thirty Six: Illinois”
Number Thirty Five: Kentucky
Rick Steves advises, “Assume you’re coming back.” We assume we’re coming back to Kentucky; it’s on the way home, maybe January. We can ride in the cold… Read more “Number Thirty Five: Kentucky”
Number Thirty Four: Virginia
You may need to look at a map to understand why we went from West Virginia to North Carolina to Virginia on our way west. That still… Read more “Number Thirty Four: Virginia”
Number Thirty Three: North Carolina
The drive from Morgantown to Raleigh was a very long driving day but North Carolina became more about seeing people, coordinating with their schedules than about biking.… Read more “Number Thirty Three: North Carolina”
Number Thirty Two: West Virginia
We spent seven days in Morgantown because (1) rain and fall caught us and (2) a nasty cold caught Doré. She is certain it came from shrinking… Read more “Number Thirty Two: West Virginia”
Number Thirty: Delaware
Winterthur, near the Pennsylvania border, was the home of the du Ponts of Delaware, for decades. The original house built in 1839 was a modest twelve rooms;… Read more “Number Thirty: Delaware”
Number Twenty Nine: Pennsylvania
Crossing the Delaware by car, not bike or boat; Lambertville, NJ, is on the right; New Hope, PA, is on the left. Lambertville is a little north… Read more “Number Twenty Nine: Pennsylvania”
Number Twenty Eight: New Jersey
Although Doré may not sound like it, for a significant period of her life (i.e., her childhood), New Jersey was home. (Her parents were born and raised… Read more “Number Twenty Eight: New Jersey”
Number Twenty Seven: Connecticut
The sculpture above features Samuel Clemmons, which was always his legal name, with Tom Sawyer, surrounded by Mark Twain’s most famous characters. There are many that I… Read more “Number Twenty Seven: Connecticut”
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