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- Hari 1
- Ahad, 24 Disember 2017 11:34 PG
- ❄️ 1 °C
- Altitud: 62 kaki
Amerika SyarikatCutter Square42°23’28” N 71°7’35” W
Lesson in tolerance [Providence]
24 Disember 2017, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ❄️ 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 theBaca lagi
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- Hari 11
- Rabu, 3 Januari 2018 9:34 PG
- ☀️ -7 °C
- Altitud: 456 kaki
- Amerika SyarikatClarks Crossing38°54’17” N 77°17’19” W
Ice-Nine [Boston]
3 Januari 2018, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ -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 onBaca lagi
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- Hari 13
- Jumaat, 5 Januari 2018 11:55 PG
- ☀️ -8 °C
- Altitud: 377 kaki
- Amerika SyarikatAsh Grove38°55’57” N 77°15’6” W
Friends on ice [Vienna]
5 Januari 2018, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ -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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- Hari 15
- Ahad, 7 Januari 2018 4:55 PTG
- ☀️ -5 °C
- Altitud: 171 kaki
- Amerika SyarikatStrawhorn Creek37°39’41” N 77°20’47” W
Crazy [Richmond]
7 Januari 2018, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ -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.Baca lagi
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- Hari 18
- Rabu, 10 Januari 2018 3:48 PTG
- ☀️ 15 °C
- Altitud: 30 kaki
- Amerika SyarikatJeanette Sedge35°15’14” N 75°31’58” W
Hatteras/obx
10 Januari 2018, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ 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 enjoyedBaca lagi
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- Hari 19
- Khamis, 11 Januari 2018 12:49 PTG
- ☁️ 17 °C
- Altitud: 13 kaki
- Amerika SyarikatSilver Lake35°6’58” N 75°59’11” W
Bank Hopping [Ocracoke]
11 Januari 2018, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☁️ 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 onBaca lagi
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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- Hari 20
- Jumaat, 12 Januari 2018 6:41 PTG
- 🌧 15 °C
- Altitud: 39 kaki
- Amerika SyarikatBeaufort32°26’7” N 80°40’43” W
Before Jim Crow [Beaufort]
12 Januari 2018, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ 🌧 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,Baca lagi
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- Hari 21
- Sabtu, 13 Januari 2018 1:51 PTG
- ☀️ 7 °C
- Altitud: 26 kaki
- Amerika SyarikatFort Frederica National Monument31°13’26” N 81°23’27” W
Fort-itude [Savannah]
13 Januari 2018, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ 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 aBaca lagi
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- Hari 22
- Ahad, 14 Januari 2018 10:59 PG
- ☀️ 7 °C
- Altitud: 56 kaki
- Amerika SyarikatGarden Creek30°26’23” N 81°26’18” W
Forts and Plantations [Jacksonville]
14 Januari 2018, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ 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 theBaca lagi
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- Hari 23
- Isnin, 15 Januari 2018 5:26 PTG
- ☀️ 17 °C
- Altitud: 20 kaki
- Amerika SyarikatDe Soto National Memorial27°31’25” N 82°38’41” W
Canaveral seashore/ De soto [St Pete]
15 Januari 2018, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ 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 BrandentonBaca lagi
John LovaasI keep wondering when you’ll find the fountain of youth?! Have you hit St. Augustine yet?
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- Hari 24
- Selasa, 16 Januari 2018 8:16 PTG
- 🌙 16 °C
- Altitud: 23 kaki
- Amerika SyarikatTurner River Indian Reservation (historical)25°52’1” N 81°6’53” W
Gators and manatees [Everglades]
16 Januari 2018, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ 🌙 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 amazingBaca lagi
John LovaasThese. Guys look well fed, probably not very interested in a couple of thin bikers!
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- Hari 25
- Rabu, 17 Januari 2018 6:16 PTG
- 🌙 18 °C
- Altitud: 36 kaki
- Amerika SyarikatCity of Florida City25°23’50” N 80°39’24” W
Bike to Nature [Everglades]
17 Januari 2018, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ 🌙 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 broughtBaca lagi
Linda MahanGreat to see the adventures continuing on the east coast. Guess you escaped the snow on this leg.
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- Hari 27
- Jumaat, 19 Januari 2018 10:39 PG
- ☀️ 16 °C
- Altitud: Paras Laut
- Amerika SyarikatFort Jefferson Seaplane Base24°37’40” N 82°52’21” W
Another Fort & Ferry [Dry Tortugas]
19 Januari 2018, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ 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. PrettyBaca lagi
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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- Hari 28
- Sabtu, 20 Januari 2018 10:35 PG
- ⛅ 18 °C
- Altitud: 16 kaki
- Amerika SyarikatPalm Island24°42’35” N 81°6’5” W
Turtle Rescue [Florida Keys]
20 Januari 2018, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ⛅ 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 rehabBaca lagi
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- Hari 33
- Khamis, 25 Januari 2018 2:27 PTG
- ☀️ 18 °C
- Altitud: 49 kaki
- Amerika SyarikatHomosassa Springs28°47’57” N 82°35’14” W
In search of the wild manatee [Ocala]
25 Januari 2018, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ 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 droveBaca lagi
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- Hari 34
- Jumaat, 26 Januari 2018 9:07 PG
- ☀️ 11 °C
- Altitud: 105 kaki
- Amerika SyarikatMarjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park29°28’50” N 82°9’38” W
Yearling [Cross Creek]
26 Januari 2018, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ 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 hardshipBaca lagi
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- Hari 35
- Sabtu, 27 Januari 2018 2:00 PTG
- ☁️ 17 °C
- Altitud: 43 kaki
- Amerika SyarikatSan Carlos Beach30°20’55” N 87°17’52” W
Fort-Weary McClearys [Pensacola]
27 Januari 2018, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☁️ 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 decadesBaca lagi
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- Hari 36
- Ahad, 28 Januari 2018 7:56 PTG
- ☁️ 13 °C
- Altitud: 587 kaki
- Amerika SyarikatHorseshoe Bend Battle Ground32°58’18” N 85°44’15” W
Ethnic Cleansing [Auburn]
28 Januari 2018, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☁️ 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 overBaca lagi
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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- Hari 37
- Isnin, 29 Januari 2018 10:01 PG
- ⛅ 13 °C
- Altitud: 449 kaki
- Amerika SyarikatCarver Museum32°25’46” N 85°42’22” W
Bama, Tuskegee
29 Januari 2018, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ⛅ 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 allBaca lagi
John LovaasWhat is Tuskegee area like? Has anyone written the story of the airmen after the war?
PengembaraThere 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.
PengembaraJudging from the interviews in the visitor center film, many made the military a career. One became the first African American four-star general.
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- Hari 38
- Selasa, 30 Januari 2018 12:51 PTG
- ☀️ 7 °C
- Altitud: 118 kaki
- Amerika SyarikatSelma32°25’39” N 87°1’4” W
Selma
30 Januari 2018, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ 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 theBaca lagi
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- Hari 39
- Rabu, 31 Januari 2018 2:41 PTG
- ☀️ 18 °C
- Altitud: 59 kaki
- Amerika SyarikatHistoric New Orleans Library29°57’25” N 90°4’1” W
The big easy [New Orleans]
31 Januari 2018, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ 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 isBaca lagi
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.
PengembaraDid not see anything obvious from Katrina but then we didn't venture far from the French Quarter. I was here 12 months after Katrina and the affect was astonishing even then.
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- Hari 40
- Khamis, 1 Februari 2018 1:30 PTG
- ☁️ 20 °C
- Altitud: 43 kaki
- Amerika SyarikatUnatex30°28’50” N 92°31’15” W
Cajun Resilience [Lafayette]
1 Februari 2018, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☁️ 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 hadBaca lagi
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- Hari 41
- Jumaat, 2 Februari 2018 2:39 PTG
- ☁️ 14 °C
- Altitud: 20 kaki
- Amerika SyarikatAyres Island28°10’59” N 96°51’9” W
Whooping it up [Corpus Christi]
2 Februari 2018, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☁️ 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 inBaca lagi
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- Hari 42
- Sabtu, 3 Februari 2018 2:13 PTG
- ⛅ 21 °C
- Altitud: 46 kaki
- Amerika SyarikatLas Flores Colonia26°1’0” N 97°28’44” W
Manifest white destiny [Brownsville]
3 Februari 2018, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ⛅ 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 thatBaca lagi
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- Hari 43
- Ahad, 4 Februari 2018 11:29 PG
- ☀️ 21 °C
- Altitud: 587 kaki
- Amerika SyarikatBergs Mill29°21’39” N 98°28’46” W
Mission Mania [San Antonio]
4 Februari 2018, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ 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 aBaca lagi
PengembaraBeautifully said...