Category: USA
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Buenos Aires, AR to Park Ridge, IL, USA
Part of the value of our first-floor AirBNB was the ease at which we would be able to take our bikes out to range across the large-but-bikeable city. For the first week the bikes remained packed, and while I could imagine times when they would be useful or more-efficient, I also knew it would be… Read more…
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Park Ridge, IL to Skaneateles, NY to Park Ridge, IL
Days 1-21 For the fifth time in 1300 days of our nomadacy, we are lucky to be able to make a lengthy pause at Mom & Dad’s house. And for the second time, we made the stay into a sandwich, with an Amtrak-aided excursion in the middle, to and from Rett’s Dad’s house in New… Read more…
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Memphis, TN to Park Ridge, IL
We might have seen more on the day that we left Memphis than we did in the whole week prior. That’s the value of being “forced” out of our comfortable AirBNB twelve hours before our train left for Chicago (but I didn’t feel guilty for doing the South America-prep while holed in Memphis either). Luckily… Read more…
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Holly Springs, MS to Memphis, TN
We had a big day for the final segment of our 8-month sojourn of the eastern half of the United States. Beginning last August near Syracuse, a city in New York named after a major center of the ancient world, we coincidentally are ending in Memphis, a city in Tennessee named after another major center… Read more…
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Oxford, MS to Holly Springs, MS
Even with five days of hospitality and no bike riding, we still avoided figuring out our next steps until just yesterday. Our original idea when heading toward Chicago had been to cross back and forth over the Mississippi River to “collect” as many states as possible. But a closer study of the maps showed (and… Read more…