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Charlotte is ripe for employment
Throughout our travels, and indeed our time in Charlotte, I’m asked about the city and what it is like. I often reply it reminds me of Los Angeles in that it is a city of immigrants, that is most of the folks that I meet are from some other place. This article from today’s Charlotte […]
Europe 2014 – Madrid: The Best Laid Plans
Timeline: July 2nd – 7th We returned to camp after our fine ride, cleaned up and drove over to the bus stop for our trip to central Madrid. A quick check of the Ciclos Otero web site revealed that they close at 2:00pm on Saturdays so a stop there was out. We arrived in town […]
Europe 2014 – Granada with the Ronda on the Way
Timeline: June 27th We got a fairly early start out of Gibraltar, as we wanted to complete our plan to sightsee on the way to Granada. We had two potential destinations in mind; the Nerja Caves or the city of Ronda. Only one of the two was possible as they lay in different directions from […]
Europe 2014 – Cognac, Need I Say More?
We bade farewell to Francois after one last filling breakfast and made our way to nearby Versailles in search of a bike shop to see if we could purchase more tubes and flat repair materials. Driving in the older cities of Europe, as said before, is always an interesting experience and even with the GPS […]
Europe 1998 – A Journey Rewarded, Part Four
The flight on Ryan Air, a pioneering company that changed how folks travel there, was uneventful. Our first on an airline within Europe; on prior trips you either drove or took the train, as intercity travel by air was very expensive. Ryan Air’s introduction of Southwest Airlines model pricing and penchant for flying in and […]
Europe 1998 – A Journey Rewarded, Part Three
We would see Lynn and Tony again back in the States more than once when they would make a trip to the west coast to visit the other members of the Kelly family. The vagaries of life do not always play out the way one expects, nor desires. Having once been included, as members of […]
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