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9/28/20 – Day 4 in Alaska Up Ship Creek

9/28/20 – Day 4 in Alaska Up Ship Creek Today I rode Chester Creek Trail to the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail past downtown Anchorage to Ship Creek Trail. I don’t know why it’s called Ship Creek, it’s hardly navigable, but

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9/27/20 – Alaska Day 3 So far, so good.

9/27/20 – Alaska Day 3 So far, so good.  It was a glorious sunny day so I took off early riding the Chester Creek Trail, the Cambell Creek Trail, Moose Loop and back. Fortunately, today, there were no nasty ill-tempered

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9/26/20 – All Around Anchorage

9/26/20 – All Around Anchorage Day 2 in Alaska was spent riding the bike trails around the city of Anchorage. Few places capture the outdoors within the city like Anchorage. While riding the Coastal Trail one doesn’t even know there

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9/25/20 – Alaska Day 1

9/25/20 Alaska Day 1     I woke up and spent half the morning unloading my bike from the van, uncrating it in my room, and reassembling it for riding. I asked the guy at the front desk where I could get

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9/24/20 – Next stop – Alaska

9/24/20 – Next stop – Alaska For getting to Alaska I had planned to take the Ferry from Seattle up to Juneau. This I had done 48 years earlier with my good friend Roger when we were Coke spies. We

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9/8/20 – Welcome home!

9/8/20 – Welcome home! After riding in Iowa, my 48th state, we began our leisurely trip home. There were things to see on the way home, like buffalo in Yellowstone, and mountain goats, deer, and moose in Glacier. Although I

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Read about global warming and ways you can reduce your carbon footprint in my book, Footprint: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Extinction

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I present at conferences in America, China, South America and other countries on solar energy, global warming, electric vehicles, and reducing your carbon footprint. To learn more go to my speaker’s website.

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My Sol-Reliant solar water heating system has been installed all over the world. Order kits from the Sol-Reliant website.

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