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Recreation and Travel

Family Bike Shopping Part IV: The third and fourth bikes we almost bought, Joe Bike & Neat Bike Box Bikes

by Dorea 10.31.2011
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(See also part I, part II & part III) After ruling out the Zigo, I was able to take our friend’s Gazelle Cabby for a spin. Now, we weren’t actually considering a Cabby for reasons I’ll get into in a minute, but before riding the cabby, I hadn’t been thinking a Bakfiets-style bike, with the [...]

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Hub on Wheels 2011

by Dorea 09.25.2011
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I rode the 2011 Hub on Wheels 10 mile ride today with friends Jesse, Brian & Maggie and their kids. This was the first big organized ride I’ve done (at all, not just with kids in tow) and we had a blast. Between getting there, doing the ride, and getting home we put in about [...]

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Kidical Mass, July 24 2011, Somerville

by Dorea 07.04.2011
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Our friend Brian is rounding folks up for another Kidical Mass, this time in Somerville (see here for the report on last summer’s ride) We’ll be gathering at Somerville City Hall (93 Highland Ave, Somerville, MA) at noon on July 24th, for some bicycle admiring and decorating. We’ll start the ride at 1:00, going a [...]

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Bike parking at parks

by Angela 07.02.2011

Twice in the last week, we have biked as a family to a park on a bike path and have found that there is no place for us to park our bikes. Last weekend, we headed out the Minuteman bike path to an Arlington park (maybe at Hills Hill?). The park was obviously new and [...]

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Carfree Camping in Provincetown

by Angela 08.09.2010

We recently returned from a delightful trip to Provincetown on Cape Cod with the whole family, including my mom. We went there specifically for Family Week and we had a blast. And we camped. And of course the whole thing was done carfree. Here’s what we did. Angela was the one who acquired much of [...]

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Train trip to Drumlin Farm

by Dorea 10.06.2008

On Sunday, we made a train trip with Grandma (aka “Baba”) to the Drumlin Farm Fall Festival just West of here in Lincoln, MA. Prior to going to the farm, H insisted that there would be “Horses and cows and sheep and turtles and crabs closing their eyes under the water.” Perhaps she was unduly [...]

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Last Year’s Carfree Camping Trip

by Angela 09.17.2008

Our friend, the swadfather, suggested that we do more blogging about car free trips. That’s when we realized that, aside from Dorea’s Woods Hole trip, we really haven’t done many. That’s mostly because we’re homebodies. After all, if we went away for the weekend, we’d miss socializing at our favorite park. We have done one [...]

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Biking to spy pond

by Dorea 09.04.2008

Our neighbors (the same ones who kindly share their bike trailer for grocery shopping, and who are serious about their family biking…their 4 year old is pretty solid on a 2-wheeler which I find rather impressive) were slightly horrified that we had never gone biking on the Minuteman Bikeway, which they insist is one of [...]

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Dispatch from Woods Hole

by Dorea 08.26.2008

A couple folks have requested an update from Woods Hole. I’m learning a lot, there are a lot of great folks, the scenery is lovely, the entire town is about about 3 blocks square (much of that is the Marine Biological Laboratory where I’m studying for the month), and they feed us all the time. [...]

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Car-free road trip

by Dorea 08.07.2008

For much of August, I am staying about 70 miles south of Boston at a summer intensive at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory. Before I came down, I spent a lot of time worrying about how Angela and H. would fare in my absence, how much I was going to miss H, and how [...]

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