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Published on: 20 February, 202020 February, 2020 by RideLocalDreamGlobal Category:Local Travel Comment

Motorbikes & Local Destinations – Dreaming of Epic Journeys, Groovin’ on Simple Treks! Plenty of stories and photos from short trips, local color, interesting eateries, riding stories and reviews. Take some time, wander around, see what’s new. When you’ve seen enough of our explorations, tell us about yours. Leave...

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2020: A Year of Visual Clarity and Interesting Photography

Published on: 19 February, 202022 February, 2020 by Mike Mekinda Category:Miscellaneous Ramblings, Photography Comment

Over 200 pictures for an hour on the trail? Good grief! An hour spent culling out the good photos, ultimately winnowing them down to about pictures worth keeping? Becoming a lazy and inefficient photographer again, and something needs to change. A great advantage of digital photography is the virtually...

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Low and Slow at the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome

Published on: 20 December, 201920 December, 2019 by Mike Mekinda Category:Local Travel, Museums Comment

Vintage motorcycles, airplanes, and automobiles, my idea of a perfect destination! Finding ourselves with a few days to travel, we aimed toward the Catskills in New York. Remembering I’d wanted to visit the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome years ago, PrettyWife the Navigator planned our ride to get us there for...

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Fabulous Furniture (and Cars and Rockets and…)

Published on: 28 September, 201927 October, 2019 by Mike Mekinda Category:Local Travel Comment

That time, that uber-cool time when you’re cruising down an unknown road and an unforgettable spectacle catches your eye. Excitement builds, and you know passing by without at least a picture or two will haunt you. Next clear chance in traffic you’ve gotta’ turn back, you’ve gotta’ stop- and...

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The USS Slater: A Destroyer Escort Connection

Published on: 13 September, 201928 August, 2020 by Mike Mekinda Category:Local Travel, Naval Museum Comment

WWII was, arguably, the last war with a distinct enemy and humanity at stake. A generation of young enlisted men rose to save the world, and far too many paid with their lives. Personally, one grandfather came home to share Navy stories, while Army stories from the other lay...

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Past Ride, Quick Take: 2009 Harley-Davidson XR1200

Published on: 18 August, 201919 August, 2019 by Mike Mekinda Category:Motorsports, Past Ride Quick Take Motorcycle Review Comment

...the XR1200 is arguably the best sporty Sportster ever offered and should have been a massive sales hit.

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Beautiful NEOhio day, but all that ice on the grea Beautiful NEOhio day, but all that ice on the great Lake Erie says we're still a ways from summer...
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Top view of our NEOhio indoor pineapple this week. Top view of our NEOhio indoor pineapple this week. Lots of new leaves around the fruit, all now with protective "sawtooth" edges. For an idea of the size of this housemonster, the pot is 14" and the table is 28" x22"! 

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Sundial, Observatory Park #ObservatoryPark #Geaug Sundial, Observatory Park

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Normally my folks host their 3 kids and our extend Normally my folks host their 3 kids and our extended families for a New Years Day feast of pork and saurkraut and hours of conversations and games. This year was very different, very distanced, cold and rainy but still full of love - and the traditional meal in carryout form for all of us! Memorable and appreciated, but here's hoping we never have to do this again. Thanks Mom and Dad, love ya'!

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Some days are just flat and gray, and no amount of Some days are just flat and gray, and no amount of color would make it any better. 

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Trail ends with no obvious path forward: muscle th Trail ends with no obvious path forward: muscle through, search for path of least resistance/damage, turn back, or let indecision immobilize?
Life is like this all too often and the answer is different for each of us. Indecision is the only choice with no way out, however.
Then again, maybe 2022 will be a better year for decisions- may  just wait here in the woods! 😎

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Trail ends here, indeed. An afternoon trail walk i Trail ends here, indeed. An afternoon trail walk in a quiet snowfall... surrounded by sound gunfire of all types and calibers. So much for serenity in the wood

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Frozen Lake Erie, looking more like the Arctic as Frozen Lake Erie, looking more like the Arctic as I imagine it than NEOhio where I live!
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Sunshine was wonderful, but warmth an illusion in Sunshine was wonderful, but warmth an illusion in cold Lake Erie spray!

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Sunny, snowy, and cold- winter is NOT over! #NEOhi Sunny, snowy, and cold- winter is NOT over!
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