Palm Beach Bike Tours

Ken Steinhoff spent more than 40 years in the ink-slinging newspaper business where he had a license to be nosy. Palm Beach Bike Tours renewed that license in his retirement years. The blog is ostensibly about cycling, photography and using GPS technology to figure out where you’re going and where you’ve been. It’s really an [...]

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About 20,000 vehicles a day cross over the FEC railroad overpass on Southern Blvd. in West Palm Beach says the 2007 Florida Department of Transportation. Westbound drivers, who crane their necks just right, might see an old weather-beaten building in the shadow of the bridge.
Probably few of them do. The place is about a mile [...]

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An old high school friend sent me a link to a story in my hometown Cape Girardeau, MO, newspaper.
Howard Bock was dead at 87
Howard Gilbert Bock, 87, lifelong resident of Cape Girardeau, died Monday, May 11, 2009.
It was a longish obituary by most standards because he had a much more active life than I ever [...]

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Every May 4, I can count on getting a message from John J. Lopinot,  friend and former chief photographer at The Palm Beach Post.
Never Forget
The subject line is always “Never Forget.” Sometimes that’s all it says. That’s all it needs to say.
This morning’s message was a little longer: NEVER FORGET! 39 years ago today, Kent [...]

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[NOTE: I have "sanitized" the images here, but clicking some of the pictures or links may take you to the WNBR web site which contains really shocking pictures of folks like you and me without their clothes on. Be Warned.]
Velogirardeau, the bike club in my hometown of Cape Girardeau, MO, sends me email about upcoming [...]

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