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Profile Response: Tonia Burnette, Cannon Design, Baltimore MD

Tonia Burnette is an architect who’s dedicated her career to healthcare design. We had the pleasure of working together on Baltimore projects when she was in a local firm. As my life evolved toward Haiti, writing, and cycling, she moved … Continue reading

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

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 280 – Fayetteville, NC to Florence SC

August 11, 2016 – Sunny, 95 degrees Miles Today: 119 Miles to Date: 14,337 States to Date: 40 My internal compass went kerflooey today: missed turns; detours; backtracking all over the countryside. Maybe it was the scent of the open … Continue reading

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Trip Log – Day 273 – Rixeyville VA to Charlottesville VA

August 4, 2016 – Overcast, 80 degrees Miles Today: 55 Miles to Date: 13,901 States to Date: 38 My hosts, Kathy and Robert, served a breakfast of eggs and scrapple, muffins and fresh fruit with yogurt that rivaled the garden … Continue reading

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Trip Log – Day 247 – Cambridge, MA to Onset, MA

July 9, 2016 – Clouds, 60 degrees Miles Today: 68 Miles to Date: 12,644 States to Date: 31   It doesn’t take long on a bike to get out of the community you inhabit and come upon a different sensibility. … Continue reading

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On the Road Again

Four months and change after my altercation with a Porsche, I am back on the road, spinning a route that is basically the reverse of what I planned, though shorter in order to try and complete the circuit before the … Continue reading

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Leap Year Leap

On February 29 I turned off Alabama Highway 98 to visit the historic town of Fairhope. An elderly Porsche driver took a sudden left turn across my path. I tried to veer away. Surly’s front tire hit the vehicle’s passenger … Continue reading

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Profile Response: Jesse Tillotson, Uvalde, TX

Jesse Tillotson is a voracious reader. Make that listener. These days, the home schooled Wyoming native who spent his youth exploring the outdoors, lived independently since age seventeen, and eventually got a GED, spends hours driving through South Texas gas … Continue reading

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Profile Response: Arthur Bassett, McNeal, AZ

Thomas Arthur Bassett III (Tommy) and Thomas Arthur Bassett IV (Arthur) live in a Quaker community in the Sulfur Spring Valley outside of McNeal AZ. Arthur spent three years in the Peace Corps in the South Pacific, got a Masters … Continue reading

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Profile Response: Ruth Wylie, Assistant Research Professor, Mary Lou Fulton Teacher’s College, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

The first assignment in Ruth Wylie’s graduate level learning theory course is: “What is your personal theory of teaching?” The last assignment is the same question. Students have the option to reflect upon their initial response to the question or … Continue reading

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