Posts Tagged ‘ side paths ’

Finding the Way

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December 31, 2008
Finding the Way

From home to the beach and back. Click the image for the mapmyride route. While visiting my parents over Christmas, I joined them for several bike rides on Gulf Breeze (a spit of land between Pensacola Bay and Pensacola Beach). Much of this peninsula is essentially a sand bar with a busy US Highway running...
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Fantasy Island

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December 14, 2008
Fantasy Island

Sanibel Island has a complete network of side paths. Side paths (with new, fancy names) have become the fantasy of mode-share-obsessed bike advocates. I got a week-long taste of them in a microcosm environment. My first reaction was, “this is going to suck.” My first response was to use the road, since side paths are...
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When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.
~H.G. Wells