A 126-mile long/24-mile wide island off the coast of New York City (and, in fact, including two NYC counties — Queens and Brooklyn — on its land mass), Long Island (specifically Nassau and Suffolk counties) was a bastion of suburbia during the 1950s and beyond as potato farms got converted to subdivisions for returning soldiers…
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12 Days of Bikemas — #8: Salt Lake City, Utah
I hopped on the Frontrunner train, Utah’s commuter train, at Salt Lake City and took it along the Wasatch Range of the Rocky Mountains to Provo, about half of its 83-mile total route. It has the best bike car I’ve experienced in the USA. A fabulous multi-purpose rack system holds not just cycles of any…
12 Days of Bikemas — #5: Boulder, Colorado
I wrote a whole chapter about Boulder, Colorado in my book, Round America with a Duck ( I lived there for three weeks during my 10,000-mile journey across the USA via bike, buses, trains and working on organic farms), if you are interested. For the sake of quick-to-implement ideas that other places can do right…
