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Day 18: Ohio River hydroplanes; no cold beer
7/2/15: 70 miles, Sanders, Ky., to Charlestown, Ind. Today was our second day in Kentucky. We had a humid night’s sleep at Eagle Valley campground, a black hole of cell service. John and I were particularly sore, as though we’d spent all of yesterday sprinting the final stretch of a crit. Then it dawned on us as […]
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Digging Data: Two days at NewsHack AZ
Instructors: @esagara @carlibrosseau @matt_kiefer @mikeonline @ronaldjhansen @EvanWyloge @CaitMcGlade @rob_wisner pic.twitter.com/kvwxSZMuDg — NewsHackAZ (@NewsHackAZ) January 26, 2016 Have you ever been to a news hack? Guessing not. I hadn’t either until NewsHackAZ this past weekend. Assembled by University of Arizona’s journalism school and the Arizona Daily Star, the paper here in Tucson, NewsHackAZ brought in data reporters, digital […]
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Day 17: 1,000 miles in – crossing the Ohio River
7/1/15: 83 miles, Milford, Ohio, to Sanders, Ky. We rolled out of Milford on a hot and humid morning. There wasn’t much for showers where we camped, so we did a hobo-bath at the park bathroom across the river. We stopped in Newtown at the United Dairy Farmers (a convenience store in Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky), […]
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Day 16: To Cincinnati
6/30/15: 81 miles, London, Ohio, to Milford, Ohio About 20 minutes after I woke up — just taking my first sips of coffee — John texted me and said he was in town. It was about 8 a.m. I was surprised, honestly. I figured the road would decide the man’s fate, and yet, he came out […]
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Day 15: Ohio flattens out
6/29/15: 40 miles, Columbus, Ohio, to London, Ohio A couple weeks ago, I’d received an email from a guy named John in Columbus. He’d seen my itinerary posted on the Adventure Cycling Association’s website, where riders can link up with others on tour. He said he was considering riding to San Francisco and asked if he could […]
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