Category Bicycle Tours and Rides
East Coast Fall 2024, Corpus Christi
October24- 26, 2024 Knowing we had a relatively simple six-hour drive from Lafayette to Corpus Christi and since it was a Friday, that Stephanie and Lee would be working that day, we had no need to rush out of town for the journey. So, we stopped in at Poupart’s again for some coffee to go, […]
East Coast Fall 2024, Lafayette
October18- 20, 2024 Our short four-hour drive to Lafayette went smoothly and we arrived at check-in time at Paz’s place Airbnb. We’ve had good luck with Airbnb in rarely having booking’s cancelled (only once before I memory) but this trip brought us two, the first in Amelia Island and now here in Lafayette. About a […]
East Coast Fall 2024, Spanish Fort/Mobile, Part Two
October18- 20, 2024 As mentioned in the last post, we had one last stop on the agenda for the day, and that was at the Oakleigh House, the centerpiece of the Oakleigh Historic Complex, a grouping of buildings that contain a working-class raised cottage, Union Barracks, and a modern archives building. The name for the […]
East Coast Fall 2024, Jekyll Island
October14- 15, 2024 The drive to Jekyll Island the next day would be a relatively easy three hours, meaning we could enjoy a leisurely breakfast at the Lost Dog Café in Folly Beach (thanks to Carolyn for recommending it) and a bit of sightseeing in the afternoon. We’d last been to Folly Beach in 2015 […]
East Coast Fall 2024, Wilmington
October 9 – 11, 2024 We’d be spending three nights in Wilmington at longtime friend Carolyn’s house, who I first met through my professional involvement, the Association of College Unions International (ACUI). When we moved to Charlotte in 2008, she was the Executive Director of Student Life at UNC Wilmington and later would become the […]
East Coast Fall 2024, Charlotte, Part Two
October 2 – 8, 2024 We had full day scheduled starting the next morning, with a breakfast meeting with our Charlotte cycling friends up in the farthest northern corner of Concord at an obscure, but definitely worth the money establishment, the Crack of Dawn Diner. Normally we meet with this group of friends on a […]
East Coast Fall 2024, Charlotte, Part One
October 2 – 8, 2024 We had a relatively short drive to Kannapolis the next day for an overnight at Debi’s house (Joanna’s middle sister) but first we needed make multiple stops to begin closing out Joanna’s Mom’s (Joan’s) estate. This would involve a visit to her bank branch in Huntersville to clean out a […]
East Coast Fall 2024, Durham, Part Two
September 26 – 30, 2024 The next day, Sunday, we set out with Nicole and one of her friends to attend the annual Durham Pride Parade sponsored by the LGBTQ Center of Durham. This long-standing event traces its history to a statewide parade that began in 1986. We arrived at one leg of the parade […]
East Coast Fall 2024, Durham, Part One
September 26 – 30, 2024 Our drive to Durham would take about five hours and as luck would have it, take us through Norfolk right around lunch time. So, we made the easy decision to stop at Doumar’s Cones and Barbecue which we visited in 2003 during a road trip with Bev and her boys […]
East Coast Fall 2024, Gettysburg and New Jersey, Part Three
September 20 – 24, 2024 Once Janet joined us, we drove the short distance to Smithville for our meal at the Inn. The original was built in 1787 by James Baremore as one room on a well –traveled stagecoach route and it may not have been planned as an inn. But houses were far between […]
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