Monthly Archives: August 2016

Trip Log – Day 286 – New Ellenton SC to Augusta GA

Posted on August 20, 2016 by paulefallon

August 17, 2016 – Sunny, 95 degrees Miles Today: 30 Miles to Date: 14,653 States to Date: 41  Welcome to Georgia! I took an easy day and got my bike a 2,000 mile check-up at Andy Jordan’s Bike Shop in … Continue reading →

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Trip Log – Day 285 – Walterboro SC to New Ellenton SC

Posted on August 19, 2016 by paulefallon

August 16, 2016 – Sunny, 95 degrees Miles Today: 83 Miles to Date: 14,623 States to Date: 40 A great day of cycling out of the Low Country and into the gentle hills of upland Carolina. The pines got taller … Continue reading →

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Profile Response: Adela and Scott Taylor, Newark, DE

Posted on August 19, 2016 by paulefallon

Almost forty years have passed since Adela and I served as VISTA volunteers in Levelland, TX, yet I never met her husband Scott, so our reunion included fresh introductions among vintage stories and aging photos. Scott is a fitness fanatic; … Continue reading →

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Trip Log – Day 284 – Charleston SC to Walterboro SC

Posted on August 18, 2016 by paulefallon

August 15, 2016 – Sunny, 95 degrees Miles Today: 51 Miles to Date: 14,541 States to Date: 40 Monday morning! First day of school! Traffic galore heading east into Charleston! But I am pedaling the other direction, turning the fourth … Continue reading →

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Profile Response: Sara Haltunnen, Dover, DE

Posted on August 18, 2016 by paulefallon

I arrived at Sara’s apartment on one of the hottest days of my journey. She handed me a glass of water, “Don’t worry about a coaster. All my stuff is from Goodwill.” I took a drink and squatted on the … Continue reading →

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Trip Log – Day 283 – Charleston SC

Posted on August 17, 2016 by paulefallon

August 14, 2016 – Sunny, 95 degrees Miles Today: 25 Miles to Date: 14,490 States to Date: 40 My rotogravure of an elegant city of the South that endures revolution and civil war, earthquake and hurricane, flood and famine, mass … Continue reading →

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Profile Response: Gary Ralph and William Robbins, Milford, DE

Posted on August 17, 2016 by paulefallon

Every day, as a high school senior, I arrived at French IV with wary excitement. It was a small class, maybe five total. Our teacher, a Ph.D candidate at University of Oklahoma with beautiful Auburn hair and a florid accent, … Continue reading →

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Trip Log – Day 282 – Summerville SC to Charleston SC

Posted on August 16, 2016 by paulefallon

August 13, 2016 – Sunny, 95 degrees Miles Today: 36 Miles to Date: 14,465 States to Date: 40 Nine months ago I spent a night in the original Sun City, AZ, the first US community exclusively for people over age … Continue reading →

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Profile Response: Carol Sabo and Mark Jacopek, West Cape May, NJ

Posted on August 16, 2016 by paulefallon

About thirty years ago Carol Sabo and Mark Jacopec left the Toms River area and moved south. “That place has no soul.” They arrived in West Cape May, “bought the last house that sold for $100,000”, right on Broadway, and … Continue reading →

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Trip Log – Day 281 – Florence SC to Summerville SC

Posted on August 15, 2016 by paulefallon

August 12, 2016 – Sunny, 95 degrees Miles Today: 92 Miles to Date: 14,429 States to Date: 40  It was impossible to get turned around today – US 52 South for 75 miles, bear right on Alt US 17. I … Continue reading →

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