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- Tag 1
- Sonntag, 24. Dezember 2017 um 11:34
- ❄️ 1 °C
- Höhe über NN: 62 ft
Vereinigte Staaten von AmerikaCutter Square42°23’28” N 71°7’35” W
Lesson in tolerance [Providence]
24. Dezember 2017 in den USA ⋅ ❄️ 1 °C
Seemed appropriate to start the year with a lesson in tolerance. On Christmas Eve we visited the Touro Synagogue in Newport, RI. It's also a National Historic Site and the oldest synagogue in theWeiterlesen
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- Tag 11
- Mittwoch, 3. Januar 2018 um 09:34
- ☀️ -7 °C
- Höhe über NN: 456 ft
- Vereinigte Staaten von AmerikaClarks Crossing38°54’17” N 77°17’19” W
Ice-Nine [Boston]
3. Januar 2018 in den USA ⋅ ☀️ -7 °C
For those who don't remember their 60s popular literature, ice-nine was a scary chemical in Kurt Vonnegut's novel "Cat's Cradle." Anyway, it's taking over the East Coast. When we left Boston onWeiterlesen
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- Tag 13
- Freitag, 5. Januar 2018 um 11:55
- ☀️ -8 °C
- Höhe über NN: 377 ft
- Vereinigte Staaten von AmerikaAsh Grove38°55’57” N 77°15’6” W
Friends on ice [Vienna]
5. Januar 2018 in den USA ⋅ ☀️ -8 °C
In stopping off in the DC area we were reminded of the only thing that makes us second guess our decision to move-- the good friends we left behind. Impossible to replace decades-long friendships.
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- Tag 15
- Sonntag, 7. Januar 2018 um 16:55
- ☀️ -5 °C
- Höhe über NN: 171 ft
- Vereinigte Staaten von AmerikaStrawhorn Creek37°39’41” N 77°20’47” W
Crazy [Richmond]
7. Januar 2018 in den USA ⋅ ☀️ -5 °C
Sometimes it's the smallest detail that sticks when you visit a historical site. Cold Harbor, Va. was a sprawling landscape of carnage that included several major battles in one June 1864 fortnight.Weiterlesen
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- Tag 18
- Mittwoch, 10. Januar 2018 um 15:48
- ☀️ 15 °C
- Höhe über NN: 30 ft
- Vereinigte Staaten von AmerikaJeanette Sedge35°15’14” N 75°31’58” W
Hatteras/obx
10. Januar 2018 in den USA ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C
Winding down the obx (Outer Banks) basking in the warm 60's weather. Saluted the Wright Bros at Kitty Hawk, pondered the lost colony at Ft. Raleigh (whatever happened to Virginia Dare?), and enjoyedWeiterlesen
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- Tag 19
- Donnerstag, 11. Januar 2018 um 12:49
- ☁️ 17 °C
- Höhe über NN: 13 ft
- Vereinigte Staaten von AmerikaSilver Lake35°6’58” N 75°59’11” W
Bank Hopping [Ocracoke]
11. Januar 2018 in den USA ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
Got a taste of island commuting as we worked our way down the Outter Banks. We spent half a day either waiting for a ferry or riding one. Along the way we picked up a hitchhiker/commuter who worked onWeiterlesen
Linda MahanGlad to see you are enjoying the ferries, islands and local color. We worked our way up the islands with our bikes 14 years ago. Great memories of shrimp picnics on beaches.
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- Tag 20
- Freitag, 12. Januar 2018 um 18:41
- 🌧 15 °C
- Höhe über NN: 39 ft
- Vereinigte Staaten von AmerikaBeaufort32°26’7” N 80°40’43” W
Before Jim Crow [Beaufort]
12. Januar 2018 in den USA ⋅ 🌧 15 °C
We covered a lot of ground today but most of it was wet and obscured by incessant rain. Our only stop was one of the newest parks in the system. The Reconstruction Era National Monument in Beaufort,Weiterlesen
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- Tag 21
- Samstag, 13. Januar 2018 um 13:51
- ☀️ 7 °C
- Höhe über NN: 26 ft
- Vereinigte Staaten von AmerikaFort Frederica National Monument31°13’26” N 81°23’27” W
Fort-itude [Savannah]
13. Januar 2018 in den USA ⋅ ☀️ 7 °C
We visited the first of a string of forts dotting coastal Georgia and Florida. First up, Fort Pulaski. With a drawbridge, allligator patrolled moats, two-foot thick walls and the guiding hand of aWeiterlesen
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- Tag 22
- Sonntag, 14. Januar 2018 um 10:59
- ☀️ 7 °C
- Höhe über NN: 56 ft
- Vereinigte Staaten von AmerikaGarden Creek30°26’23” N 81°26’18” W
Forts and Plantations [Jacksonville]
14. Januar 2018 in den USA ⋅ ☀️ 7 °C
Three more forts today-- Caroline, Castillo de San Marcos and Matanzas. Plus Timucuan, an ecological and historical preserve. The forts told various stories of colonial mahem and hegemony between theWeiterlesen
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- Tag 23
- Montag, 15. Januar 2018 um 17:26
- ☀️ 17 °C
- Höhe über NN: 20 ft
- Vereinigte Staaten von AmerikaDe Soto National Memorial27°31’25” N 82°38’41” W
Canaveral seashore/ De soto [St Pete]
15. Januar 2018 in den USA ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
Started out the day exploring the Cape Canaveral seashore donated to the NPS by NASA in the 60's. One of the last wild Fla seashores, terrific 30-40 foot Indian oyster shell middens. On to BrandentonWeiterlesen
John LovaasI keep wondering when you’ll find the fountain of youth?! Have you hit St. Augustine yet?
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- Tag 24
- Dienstag, 16. Januar 2018 um 20:16
- 🌙 16 °C
- Höhe über NN: 23 ft
- Vereinigte Staaten von AmerikaTurner River Indian Reservation (historical)25°52’1” N 81°6’53” W
Gators and manatees [Everglades]
16. Januar 2018 in den USA ⋅ 🌙 16 °C
Today we began the final push to complete the last few Florida parks we haven't seen before the looming government shutdown Friday night. So today was spent in Everglades NP. Awed with the amazingWeiterlesen
John LovaasThese. Guys look well fed, probably not very interested in a couple of thin bikers!
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- Tag 25
- Mittwoch, 17. Januar 2018 um 18:16
- 🌙 18 °C
- Höhe über NN: 36 ft
- Vereinigte Staaten von AmerikaCity of Florida City25°23’50” N 80°39’24” W
Bike to Nature [Everglades]
17. Januar 2018 in den USA ⋅ 🌙 18 °C
Deployed our folding bikes this morning for a 15-mile ride through the Everglades. This no-autos trail gives a good feel for the Everglades sea of grass. And it is loaded with wildlife. We broughtWeiterlesen
Linda MahanGreat to see the adventures continuing on the east coast. Guess you escaped the snow on this leg.
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- Tag 27
- Freitag, 19. Januar 2018 um 10:39
- ☀️ 16 °C
- Höhe über NN: Meereshöhe
- Vereinigte Staaten von AmerikaFort Jefferson Seaplane Base24°37’40” N 82°52’21” W
Another Fort & Ferry [Dry Tortugas]
19. Januar 2018 in den USA ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
Up early to catch a two-plus hour ferry ride to one of the largest forts on the E coast; Dry Tortuga Nat'l Park. Huge frigate birds gliding over this island reef; at least 100 of them. PrettyWeiterlesen
John LovaasMuch prettier at St. Pete Beach this week. How long will you be confined at Dr. Kidd’s Dry Turtles?!
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- Tag 28
- Samstag, 20. Januar 2018 um 10:35
- ⛅ 18 °C
- Höhe über NN: 16 ft
- Vereinigte Staaten von AmerikaPalm Island24°42’35” N 81°6’5” W
Turtle Rescue [Florida Keys]
20. Januar 2018 in den USA ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
Having notched the last of the ten Florida National Parks on Friday we headed back to the mainland to visit our friend Krista Eaton in Miami. By chance we passed Florida's first sea turtle rehabWeiterlesen
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- Tag 33
- Donnerstag, 25. Januar 2018 um 14:27
- ☀️ 18 °C
- Höhe über NN: 49 ft
- Vereinigte Staaten von AmerikaHomosassa Springs28°47’57” N 82°35’14” W
In search of the wild manatee [Ocala]
25. Januar 2018 in den USA ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
Drove up to Crystal Springs, Fla. in search of manatees. The ranger station, empty like the park, had a flyer telling us to go to Homosassa Springs State Park if one wanted to see manatees. We droveWeiterlesen
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- Tag 34
- Freitag, 26. Januar 2018 um 09:07
- ☀️ 11 °C
- Höhe über NN: 105 ft
- Vereinigte Staaten von AmerikaMarjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park29°28’50” N 82°9’38” W
Yearling [Cross Creek]
26. Januar 2018 in den USA ⋅ ☀️ 11 °C
Visited Marjorie K. Rawlings home at Cross Creek, Fla. Just one of my favorite books! (Debra and Krista, this one's for you too!) She captures rural, old Florida; it's quirky neighbors, the hardshipWeiterlesen
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- Tag 35
- Samstag, 27. Januar 2018 um 14:00
- ☁️ 17 °C
- Höhe über NN: 43 ft
- Vereinigte Staaten von AmerikaSan Carlos Beach30°20’55” N 87°17’52” W
Fort-Weary McClearys [Pensacola]
27. Januar 2018 in den USA ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
More coastal forts. Fort Pickens, built by slaves and, briefly, prison-home to the Apache chief, Geronimo. Ft McRee, which we fortunately didn't have to see because it was swept into the ocean decadesWeiterlesen
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- Tag 36
- Sonntag, 28. Januar 2018 um 19:56
- ☁️ 13 °C
- Höhe über NN: 587 ft
- Vereinigte Staaten von AmerikaHorseshoe Bend Battle Ground32°58’18” N 85°44’15” W
Ethnic Cleansing [Auburn]
28. Januar 2018 in den USA ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
Horseshoe Bend Nat'l Battlefield is one of those parks you want to hurry through. The things that happened there are that horrendous. Andrew Jackson learned the art of ethnic cleansing here where overWeiterlesen
John LovaasThis is one of the Indian stories one hears litttle about....too little it seems.
John LovaasAre there any remnants of the Indians who survived, if there were any, in the region? Monuments to them? Who best tells their story?
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- Tag 37
- Montag, 29. Januar 2018 um 10:01
- ⛅ 13 °C
- Höhe über NN: 449 ft
- Vereinigte Staaten von AmerikaCarver Museum32°25’46” N 85°42’22” W
Bama, Tuskegee
29. Januar 2018 in den USA ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
A couple day diversion up to Alabama continues (as New Orleans stuff not open on the weekend). I hate to draw stereotypes, but do see hound and pit bull dogs running loose, heard a hound baying allWeiterlesen
John LovaasWhat is Tuskegee area like? Has anyone written the story of the airmen after the war?
ReisenderThere are apparently two Tuskegees. One primarily African American around the institute and a mostly white town of Tuskegee a few miles away which we did not visit. Economic status hard to gauge. Plenty of books on Tuskegee airmen. They sparked integration of the military by Truman.
John LovaasI meant what became of them as individuals after their wartime experience.
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- Tag 38
- Dienstag, 30. Januar 2018 um 12:51
- ☀️ 7 °C
- Höhe über NN: 118 ft
- Vereinigte Staaten von AmerikaSelma32°25’39” N 87°1’4” W
Selma
30. Januar 2018 in den USA ⋅ ☀️ 7 °C
Up to now, every Park we've visited was history, natural or human. Selma is different. This is our living history. The Selma to Montgomery HistoricTrail recounts in pictures, film and audio theWeiterlesen
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- Tag 39
- Mittwoch, 31. Januar 2018 um 14:41
- ☀️ 18 °C
- Höhe über NN: 59 ft
- Vereinigte Staaten von AmerikaHistoric New Orleans Library29°57’25” N 90°4’1” W
The big easy [New Orleans]
31. Januar 2018 in den USA ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
We could almost say, another ferry, another fort. We visited the swamp hangout of the "entrepreneur" (pirate) Jean Lafitte and the 1815 battlefield of his earstwhile buddy, Andrew Jackson.
Lafitte isWeiterlesen
John LovaasAh, New Orleans—-another of those places you are visiting that are on my list in the U.S. Never been there except to pass thru the airport a couple of times coming from and going to Central America. Can you see effects of the Katrina? You should stay fro Mardi Gras! Hope to see more pics.
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- Tag 40
- Donnerstag, 1. Februar 2018 um 13:30
- ☁️ 20 °C
- Höhe über NN: 43 ft
- Vereinigte Staaten von AmerikaUnatex30°28’50” N 92°31’15” W
Cajun Resilience [Lafayette]
1. Februar 2018 in den USA ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
Spent our last day in Louisiana hop scotching west from one Cajun cultural center to another. Three in all. We were vaguely familiar with their story thanks to Longfellow's Evangeline but really hadWeiterlesen
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- Tag 41
- Freitag, 2. Februar 2018 um 14:39
- ☁️ 14 °C
- Höhe über NN: 20 ft
- Vereinigte Staaten von AmerikaAyres Island28°10’59” N 96°51’9” W
Whooping it up [Corpus Christi]
2. Februar 2018 in den USA ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
Took a small boat tour out of Rockport TX to the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge. This is the only place the remaining wild whooping cranes fly to in winter from Buffalo Wood Provincial Park inWeiterlesen
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- Tag 42
- Samstag, 3. Februar 2018 um 14:13
- ⛅ 21 °C
- Höhe über NN: 46 ft
- Vereinigte Staaten von AmerikaLas Flores Colonia26°1’0” N 97°28’44” W
Manifest white destiny [Brownsville]
3. Februar 2018 in den USA ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
The US honed its country eminent domain skills in the first battle of the Mexican-American War at Palo Alto. US troops baited the Mexican Army into crossing the Rio Grande. What's interesting is thatWeiterlesen
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- Tag 43
- Sonntag, 4. Februar 2018 um 11:29
- ☀️ 21 °C
- Höhe über NN: 587 ft
- Vereinigte Staaten von AmerikaBergs Mill29°21’39” N 98°28’46” W
Mission Mania [San Antonio]
4. Februar 2018 in den USA ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
In California the 20 Spanish missions were each spaced one day's ride apart up half the length of the territory. In Texas the Comanche were such a constant threat that they crammed six of them into aWeiterlesen
ReisenderBeautifully said...