{"id":30231,"date":"2022-11-23T08:50:12","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T13:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=30231"},"modified":"2022-11-23T08:53:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T13:53:47","slug":"biking-in-discount-drug-mart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/23\/biking-in-discount-drug-mart\/","title":{"rendered":"BIKING IN DISCOUNT DRUG MART"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I saw<\/strong> <\/span>a bike inside Discount Drug Mart. It wasn\u2019t for sale. It was blocking an aisle. A fully loaded bike \u2013 camping gear, front bag. I was trying to get blueberries but couldn\u2019t easily navigate around the bike. A girl came up and said the bike was hers. I asked if Drug Mart let bikes in. She said yes. She was biking from Maine to California, she said.<\/p>\n

She was Audra, 20, from Maine. She goes to Mount Holyoke and is studying film and environmental-something. She was biking out the southern route, Route 66.<\/p>\n

She hadn\u2019t heard of the song “Route 66.” I sent her a link to the Nat “King” Cole version. Also, I told her I had contributed to Adventure Cycling in Missoula, Mont., like forever. Like since it was Bikecentennial, 1976. I like maps — bike maps in particular.<\/p>\n

Audra did the trip solo. (This all happened in August.) She said she\u2019d send me a film of her trip. Cool. I haven’t gotten it yet, young lady!<\/p>\n

All this<\/strong><\/span> went down next to the blueberries at Discount Drug Mart in Lakewood, Ohio.<\/p>\n

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I had an essay,<\/span> “Rushing to the Gate is a Young Man’s Game,”<\/a> in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal<\/em>, about airport travel. (No paywall.)
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I saw a bike inside Discount Drug Mart. It wasn\u2019t for sale. It was blocking an aisle. A fully loaded bike \u2013 camping gear, front bag. I was trying to get blueberries but couldn\u2019t easily navigate around the bike. A girl came up and said the bike was hers. I asked if Drug Mart let […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30231"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30237,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30231\/revisions\/30237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}