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Traverse City Adventure: Northern Michigan state of...

Dennis Forney

7 years ago

DAY 34 • 14 SEPTEMBER 2017 • FRANKFORT We rose at first light, loaded the bags for our last day of...
Barefootin'
Traverse City Adventure: Peaches, pears and Frankfort

Dennis Forney

7 years ago

DAY 33 • 13 SEPTEMBER 2017 • MANISTEE All along the way people have told us Michigan gets more...
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Cape Henlopen High School Celebrates the 2017/2018...

Jason Fruchtman

7 years ago

Cape Henlopen High School celebrates the start of the 2017/18 school year. While we are busy...
Gravity & Lift photography
After the sun goes down

deny_howeth

7 years ago

The light from our burning orb lasts well past the time stamp of the sunset. Colors get deeper -...
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Where do you get your protein?

dorothy_greet

7 years ago

Biology Professor Tom Lord assures Greg that the very structure of every bean and every kernel of...
Barefootin'
Traverse City Adventure: Apple picking time is nigh

Dennis Forney

7 years ago

DAY 31 • 11 SEPTEMBER 2017 • PENTWATER Thirty-eight miles we rode on this mid-September day after...
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Traverse City Adventure: today’s total broke 1,000...

Dennis Forney

7 years ago

DAY 30 • 10 SEPTEMBER 2017 • MUSKEGON The Pentwater River flows into Lake Michigan here. Can’t tell...
Barefootin'
Traverse City Adventure: Grand Haven to Muskegon...

Dennis Forney

7 years ago

DAY 29 • 9 SEPTEMBER 2017 • GRAND HAVEN We rode 25 miles this day up the Lake Michigan shoreline to...
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Traverse City Adventure: A day of rotten news

Dennis Forney

7 years ago

DAY 28 • 8 SEPTEMBER 2017 • SAUGATUCK I’m a man of faith. Tom Draper was a man of faith. And I know...
Delaware Poetry Review: DePoetry.com
We Were Never the Same

Famaz Fatemi

7 years ago

The world will always have sour plums and I will always want them. Love is a surprise party in...
Barefootin'
Traverse City Adventure: In the art town of Saugatuck

Dennis Forney

7 years ago

DAY 26 • 6 SEPTEMBER 2017 • SOUTH HAVEN Pedaling up the west coast of Michigan now. That’s what the...
Barefootin'
Traverse City Adventure: On to the shores of Lake...

Dennis Forney

7 years ago

DAY 24 • 5 SEPTEMBER 2017 • KALAMAZOO We jumped on this day early, left all our worries behind in...
Barefootin'
Traverse City Adventure: Battle Creek and Kalamazoo

Dennis Forney

7 years ago

DAY 23 • 3 SEPTEMBER 2017 • MARSHALL Today’s journey took us to Kalamazoo in southwestern Michigan...
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The Problem - Heart Disease Remains #1 Killer

dorothy_greet

7 years ago

It's no secret that heart disease is our #1 killer. It should no longer be a secret that the one...
Barefootin'
Traverse City Adventure: An amazing day of riding

Dennis Forney

7 years ago

DAY 22 • 2 SEPTEMBER 2017 • EVANS LAKE This was the best day of riding yet. By the time we rode...
Barefootin'
Traverse City Adventure: Into September, into Michigan

Dennis Forney

7 years ago

DAY 21 • 1 SEPTEMBER 2017 • SYLVANIA, OHIO We crossed into Michigan just north of Sylvania, on the...
Barefootin'
Traverse City Adventure: Beer at a Toledo brewery

Dennis Forney

7 years ago

DAY 20 - 31 AUGUST 2017 • FREMONT After a good breakfast at the AM Corner Cafe in downtown Fremont...
Barefootin'
Traverse City Adventure: North Coastal Inland Trail

Dennis Forney

7 years ago

DAY 19 • 30 AUGUST 2017 • OBERLIN We grabbed coffee and a ham and cheese croissant this morning at...
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Ratatouille 1-2-3

dorothy_greet

7 years ago

Here's a perfect end-of-summer whole food plant-based meal that nourishes, heals and energizes--...
Barefootin'
Traverse City Adventure: A tailwind to Oberlin

Dennis Forney

7 years ago

DAY 17 and DAY 18 • 28 AUGUST 2017 • WOOSTER, OHIO We rode 45 miles on this day, mostly on back...
Barefootin'
Traverse City Adventure: Central Ohio, Wooster

Dennis Forney

7 years ago

DAY 16 • 27 AUGUST 2017 • NEW PHILADELPHIA We opted today for a larger, flatter, straighter highway...
Barefootin'
Traverse City Adventure: campfire prayers

Dennis Forney

7 years ago

DAY 15 • 26 AUGUST 2017 • TAPPAN LAKE CAMP As we broke camp this morning - stuffing sleeping bags,...
Barefootin'
Traverse City Adventure: chased by a cur dog

Dennis Forney

7 years ago

DAY 14 • FRIDAY, 25 AUGUST 2017 • HIDDEN HOLLOW Heavy rain followed by heavy dew soaked the fly of...
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Traverse City Adventure: 48 miles, crossing Ohio

Dennis Forney

7 years ago

DAY 13 • 24 AUGUST 2017 • OAKDALE This was our toughest day yet. Lots of mountains to climb, in and...
Barefootin'
Traverse City Adventure: Pittsburgh to Oakdale

Dennis Forney

7 years ago

DAY 12 • 23 AUGUST 2017 • OAKDALE We rode 19 miles to Oakdale today. We eventually made our way to...
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Traverse City Adventure: Pittsburgh in a storm

dennis_forney

7 years ago

DAY 11 • 22 AUGUST 2017 • WEST NEWTON We broke camp at 0730, loaded up and headed for Pittsburgh...
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Friends For Life

dorothy_greet

7 years ago

It all began with an email message from a woman I did not know. Bonnie from Asheville, North...
Delaware Poetry Review: DePoetry.com
Ruminations on Prince B-sides and Rarities

Teri Ellen Cross Davis

7 years ago

...... ...... I. Erotic City  I was 13 when my fingertips found the groove   tapping...
Barefootin'
Traverse City Adventure: America’s business is...

Dennis Forney

7 years ago

DAY 10 • MONDAY 21 AUGUST • TRAVERSE CITY ADVENTURE WEST NEWTON - We rode 44 miles today on the...
Barefootin'
Traverse City Adventure: Ohiopyle on a sunny summer...

Dennis Forney

7 years ago

DAY 9 • SUNDAY 20 AUGUST • TRAVERSE CITY ADVENTURE OHIOPYLE, PENNSYLVANIA - Located along the fast-...
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Traverse City Adventure: From Cumberland to a hostel...

Dennis Forney

7 years ago

DAY 8 • 19 AUGUST • TRAVERSE CITY ADVENTURE CUMBERLAND - We left the Cumberland Inn at 0800 headed...
Barefootin'
Traverse City Adventure: Motorcycle Mike takes us...

Dennis Forney

7 years ago

DAY 7 • 18 AUGUST 2017 • TRAVERSE CITY ADVENTURE HANCOCK, MARYLAND - We awoke in the bunkhouse,...
Barefootin'
Traverse City Adventure: Ending the day at a...

dennis_forney

7 years ago

DAY 6 - 17 AUGUST 2017 • TRAVERSE BAY ADVENTURE We pedaled 55.5 miles today. I’m happy with that...
Barefootin'
Traverse City Adventure: A quick little...

Dennis Forney

7 years ago

16 AUGUST 2017 • TRAVERSE CITY ADVENTURE • DAY 5 At 6 p.m. in this sweet little university town,...
Gravity & Lift photography
THIS GUY!

deny_howeth

7 years ago

Oslo the baby bulldog, a good-luck charm, recently had surgery on his legs, costing nearly $12,000...
Barefootin'
Traverse City Adventure: Four days - two days of...

Dennis Forney

7 years ago

15 AUGUST 2017 • DAYS THREE AND FOUR OF OUR TRAVERSE CITY ODYSSEY Counting today's 48.33 miles, we'...
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Luncheon by the Bay

dorothy_greet

7 years ago

Kudos to Chef Ted Deptula of the Lewes Yacht Club for our elegant plant-based luncheon. This is not...
Barefootin'
Traverse City Adventure: Day Two - Dirt roads of...

Dennis Forney

7 years ago

13 AUGUST 2017 We logged 35 miles after breaking camp in Martinak State Park. Our first day was...
Barefootin'
Traverse City, Michigan beckons; we’re heeding

Dennis Forney

7 years ago

Paul says the lakes, dunes and towns of Michigan along the Lake Michigan shoreline are worth seeing...
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Simple Summer Sorbets

dorothy_greet

8 years ago

What’s creamy and smooth without a drop of cream? What's sweet and delicious without a smidgen of...
Delaware Poetry Review: DePoetry.com
For you (Mr. Nelson)

Curtis L. Crisler

8 years ago

The day before Minnesota found you splayed out, like some master’s painting under another painting...
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ANIMAL RIGHTS

dorothy_greet

8 years ago

We have known since adopting PLANT-BASED EATING for health reasons in 2011 that no animal needs to...
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TEMPEH TIME

dorothy_greet

8 years ago

This mouth-watering sandwich will have you searching for TEMPEH (temp pay), fermented soybean cake...
Delaware Poetry Review: DePoetry.com
Under the Cherry Moon

David Colodney

8 years ago

I’m not sure if this poem is about Prince or this girl I once loved who loved Prince a girl who...
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SOS PEACH PIE-LETS

dorothy_greet

8 years ago

Bennetts peaches ( http://www.bennettorchards.com ) are in full glory in Delaware! They're the...
Gravity & Lift photography
At the Point

deny_howeth

8 years ago

The Point at Cape Henlopen is one of our treasures. Pick any day to visit and you will see tons of...
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77 Berries, 77 Years

dorothy_greet

8 years ago

77 berries on a bed of sliced peaches made my amazing birthday cake an edible work of art...
Delaware Poetry Review: DePoetry.com
On Loss

Alison Cobb

8 years ago

This world span rain. I mean how the breath can quit. It comes and goes you don’t believe it stops...
Gravity & Lift photography
Color my world

deny_howeth

8 years ago

There are about 70 species of Helianthus or sunflowers- this field in Nassau is of small...
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WIN WIN

dorothy_greet

8 years ago

One day in 2011 my husband and I cleaned out all the meat, dairy products and oils from our kitchen...