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- Dag 1
- zondag 24 december 2017 om 11:34
- ❄️ 1 °C
- Hoogte: 62 ft
Verenigde StatenCutter Square42°23’28” N 71°7’35” W
Lesson in tolerance [Providence]
24 december 2017, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ❄️ 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 theMeer informatie
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- Dag 11
- woensdag 3 januari 2018 om 09:34
- ☀️ -7 °C
- Hoogte: 456 ft
- Verenigde StatenClarks Crossing38°54’17” N 77°17’19” W
Ice-Nine [Boston]
3 januari 2018, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ -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 onMeer informatie
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- Dag 13
- vrijdag 5 januari 2018 om 11:55
- ☀️ -8 °C
- Hoogte: 377 ft
- Verenigde StatenAsh Grove38°55’57” N 77°15’6” W
Friends on ice [Vienna]
5 januari 2018, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ -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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- Dag 15
- zondag 7 januari 2018 om 16:55
- ☀️ -5 °C
- Hoogte: 171 ft
- Verenigde StatenStrawhorn Creek37°39’41” N 77°20’47” W
Crazy [Richmond]
7 januari 2018, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ -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.Meer informatie
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- Dag 18
- woensdag 10 januari 2018 om 15:48
- ☀️ 15 °C
- Hoogte: 30 ft
- Verenigde StatenJeanette Sedge35°15’14” N 75°31’58” W
Hatteras/obx
10 januari 2018, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 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 enjoyedMeer informatie
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- Dag 19
- donderdag 11 januari 2018 om 12:49
- ☁️ 17 °C
- Hoogte: 13 ft
- Verenigde StatenSilver Lake35°6’58” N 75°59’11” W
Bank Hopping [Ocracoke]
11 januari 2018, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☁️ 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 onMeer informatie
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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- Dag 20
- vrijdag 12 januari 2018 om 18:41
- 🌧 15 °C
- Hoogte: 39 ft
- Verenigde StatenBeaufort32°26’7” N 80°40’43” W
Before Jim Crow [Beaufort]
12 januari 2018, Verenigde Staten ⋅ 🌧 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,Meer informatie
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- Dag 21
- zaterdag 13 januari 2018 om 13:51
- ☀️ 7 °C
- Hoogte: 26 ft
- Verenigde StatenFort Frederica National Monument31°13’26” N 81°23’27” W
Fort-itude [Savannah]
13 januari 2018, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 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 aMeer informatie
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- Dag 22
- zondag 14 januari 2018 om 10:59
- ☀️ 7 °C
- Hoogte: 56 ft
- Verenigde StatenGarden Creek30°26’23” N 81°26’18” W
Forts and Plantations [Jacksonville]
14 januari 2018, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 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 theMeer informatie
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- Dag 23
- maandag 15 januari 2018 om 17:26
- ☀️ 17 °C
- Hoogte: 20 ft
- Verenigde StatenDe Soto National Memorial27°31’25” N 82°38’41” W
Canaveral seashore/ De soto [St Pete]
15 januari 2018, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 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 BrandentonMeer informatie
John LovaasI keep wondering when you’ll find the fountain of youth?! Have you hit St. Augustine yet?
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- Dag 24
- dinsdag 16 januari 2018 om 20:16
- 🌙 16 °C
- Hoogte: 23 ft
- Verenigde StatenTurner River Indian Reservation (historical)25°52’1” N 81°6’53” W
Gators and manatees [Everglades]
16 januari 2018, Verenigde Staten ⋅ 🌙 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 amazingMeer informatie
John LovaasThese. Guys look well fed, probably not very interested in a couple of thin bikers!
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- Dag 25
- woensdag 17 januari 2018 om 18:16
- 🌙 18 °C
- Hoogte: 36 ft
- Verenigde StatenCity of Florida City25°23’50” N 80°39’24” W
Bike to Nature [Everglades]
17 januari 2018, Verenigde Staten ⋅ 🌙 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 broughtMeer informatie
Linda MahanGreat to see the adventures continuing on the east coast. Guess you escaped the snow on this leg.
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- Dag 27
- vrijdag 19 januari 2018 om 10:39
- ☀️ 16 °C
- Hoogte: Zeeniveau
- Verenigde StatenFort Jefferson Seaplane Base24°37’40” N 82°52’21” W
Another Fort & Ferry [Dry Tortugas]
19 januari 2018, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 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. PrettyMeer informatie
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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- Dag 28
- zaterdag 20 januari 2018 om 10:35
- ⛅ 18 °C
- Hoogte: 16 ft
- Verenigde StatenPalm Island24°42’35” N 81°6’5” W
Turtle Rescue [Florida Keys]
20 januari 2018, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ⛅ 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 rehabMeer informatie
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- Dag 33
- donderdag 25 januari 2018 om 14:27
- ☀️ 18 °C
- Hoogte: 49 ft
- Verenigde StatenHomosassa Springs28°47’57” N 82°35’14” W
In search of the wild manatee [Ocala]
25 januari 2018, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 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 droveMeer informatie
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- Dag 34
- vrijdag 26 januari 2018 om 09:07
- ☀️ 11 °C
- Hoogte: 105 ft
- Verenigde StatenMarjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park29°28’50” N 82°9’38” W
Yearling [Cross Creek]
26 januari 2018, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 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 hardshipMeer informatie
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- Dag 35
- zaterdag 27 januari 2018 om 14:00
- ☁️ 17 °C
- Hoogte: 43 ft
- Verenigde StatenSan Carlos Beach30°20’55” N 87°17’52” W
Fort-Weary McClearys [Pensacola]
27 januari 2018, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☁️ 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 decadesMeer informatie
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- Dag 36
- zondag 28 januari 2018 om 19:56
- ☁️ 13 °C
- Hoogte: 587 ft
- Verenigde StatenHorseshoe Bend Battle Ground32°58’18” N 85°44’15” W
Ethnic Cleansing [Auburn]
28 januari 2018, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☁️ 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 overMeer informatie
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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- Dag 37
- maandag 29 januari 2018 om 10:01
- ⛅ 13 °C
- Hoogte: 449 ft
- Verenigde StatenCarver Museum32°25’46” N 85°42’22” W
Bama, Tuskegee
29 januari 2018, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ⛅ 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 allMeer informatie
John LovaasWhat is Tuskegee area like? Has anyone written the story of the airmen after the war?
ReizigerThere 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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- Dag 38
- dinsdag 30 januari 2018 om 12:51
- ☀️ 7 °C
- Hoogte: 118 ft
- Verenigde StatenSelma32°25’39” N 87°1’4” W
Selma
30 januari 2018, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 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 theMeer informatie
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- Dag 39
- woensdag 31 januari 2018 om 14:41
- ☀️ 18 °C
- Hoogte: 59 ft
- Verenigde StatenHistoric New Orleans Library29°57’25” N 90°4’1” W
The big easy [New Orleans]
31 januari 2018, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 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.
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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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- Dag 40
- donderdag 1 februari 2018 om 13:30
- ☁️ 20 °C
- Hoogte: 43 ft
- Verenigde StatenUnatex30°28’50” N 92°31’15” W
Cajun Resilience [Lafayette]
1 februari 2018, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☁️ 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 hadMeer informatie
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- Dag 41
- vrijdag 2 februari 2018 om 14:39
- ☁️ 14 °C
- Hoogte: 20 ft
- Verenigde StatenAyres Island28°10’59” N 96°51’9” W
Whooping it up [Corpus Christi]
2 februari 2018, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☁️ 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 inMeer informatie
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- Dag 42
- zaterdag 3 februari 2018 om 14:13
- ⛅ 21 °C
- Hoogte: 46 ft
- Verenigde StatenLas Flores Colonia26°1’0” N 97°28’44” W
Manifest white destiny [Brownsville]
3 februari 2018, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ⛅ 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 thatMeer informatie
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- Dag 43
- zondag 4 februari 2018 om 11:29
- ☀️ 21 °C
- Hoogte: 587 ft
- Verenigde StatenBergs Mill29°21’39” N 98°28’46” W
Mission Mania [San Antonio]
4 februari 2018, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 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 aMeer informatie
ReizigerBeautifully said...