The news that a cold front was coming into Miami spread like wildfire all throughout Saturday. Indeed, once it rained in the afternoon, everyone readied their sweaters and jackets, waiting for the tiniest bit of semi-cold air to hit. Saturday night it was very nice, but Sunday morning it was just brilliant; the temperature was [...]
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Bike Miami Ride: Upper East Side
September 29th, 2009
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Bike Miami Ride Group – by Debbie Attias
On Sunday, September 27, the City of Miami held another of its monthly Bike Miami Rides, this one around the Miami Upper East Side, and we made our way there to join in. It helped that the starting point was actually not that far from our house, which [...]
Sunday Afternoon Ride
September 7th, 2009
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The Labor Day holiday weekend is here, and that means that what would normally have been a busy Sunday of running errands need not be so hectic. Considering how the weather has been for the past week, we were surprised to see that by the early afternoon the sun was still shinning strong and the [...]
Miami Book Fair
November 19th, 2008
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Last week was the Miami Book Fair International, a world-class literary event that brings together hundreds of authors (of all stripes, nationalities and levels of accomplishment) and thousands of fans of the written word on the streets of Downtown Miami. The activities are divided between talks and conferences during the week and the street fair [...]
Bike Miami
November 9th, 2008
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Today was Bike Miami, an event that made part of Downtown Miami car-free for 5 hours, from 10 am to 3 pm, opening it up for cyclists, skaters and pedestrians, taking a page from such events as Ciclovía in Bogota, Colombia. By all accounts the event was a success, with attendance estimated at around 2000 people, give [...]
A Great, Then Not-So-Great, Biking Day
September 3rd, 2008
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While driving back home on Sunday from visiting my father-in-law, I decided to take the “scenic route” through South Beach. Being stuck in traffic we had a chance to take a look at the Beach and see how far it has fallen, how much a mere shadow of its former trendy-in-a-boutique-kinda-way glory days in the [...]
Sunday Afternoon Bike Ride
August 24th, 2008
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About a month ago I got a new Schwinn Legacy cruiser bike as part of a goal to do more incidental excercise and lower the use of the car.
My wife also got a new bike, an Electra Amsterdam Ladies Classic 3 with a Tulip motif. We picked it up from the store last Thursday, but [...]
