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AGAIN with the good-weather-for-ducks! We will probably get more than three inches before this one is over, and that's not even taking into account the winds howling. Might as well call it what it feels like: a low grade winter hurricane, and avoid it if at all possible...
And me, in my mind's eye, I'm just heading out from Iggy's in Oakland Beach, down the coast toward Quonset Point, in my "unhurried" way. Why would anyone be hurrying anyway? In my mind's eye it's actually sometime in June; the… Continue

OK, so it hasn't taken very long for a "pattern" to develop: identify reliably-rewarding destinations along the coast of Narragansett Bay and come up with a way to get to them SAFELY without four wheels. But wait, there's more! Just this week my-Colorado-brother-of-the-saddle brings to my attention this spectacular revelation: our good friends at Google are now offering up a Beta map- direction improvement; directions for the car-less, a WALKABLE option! Don't look now, but this entire thing abo… Continue

NICE weather we are having... This morning it was ten (10) degrees out there. Not the kind of temperature to draw a fair-weather bike rider, such as myself, toward the open road. Actually, even a technically "open road" in Rhode Island in January still has plenty of ice about the shoulders. "Shoulders," you know, the part of the road where you'll find BIKES. So with weather like this I'm leaving the serious riding to serious riders, like those intrepid AmeriCorps folks who bike in to work at Sav… Continue