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Double Double I really like the word “double”. It is a fun word to say, and when I hear it I think of getting something extra. In baseball a double is getting an extra base on a hit. In basketball a double double is when you get double digits in two different statistics in the…

Chiming In I finished up the “F” streets today. My total distance traveled is at 333 miles. Given that I was 1/3 of the way through the streets on Tuesday of this week, I should finish up with right around 1,000 total miles. I have completed all of these routes without wearing headphones or air…

You Say Potato Fries is a short side street off Riverside just north of Madison. Just as I began my route from the Riverside end, I ran into a few residents congregating on a front porch for a Friday afternoon happy hour. I asked them how to pronounce their street and one person immediately shouted…

What’s in a Name? French is the second red brick street I have walked down in the last week (Fischer was the other). There is something nostalgic and romantic about the red bricks. I loved hearing the hum of rubber tires from cars rolling down the street this morning. It got me wondering how long…

Here’s Johnny I was racing a storm as I power-walked down Franklin Boulevard this afternoon. The sun was shining and the skies were bright blue when I started walking the street from the corner of 117th Street at the Cleveland border. People were outside taking walks and doing yardwork. As I continued along the sky…

Gnome Picture Challenge I’m now 1/3 of the way done with my Lakewood A to Z Challenge. I can’t believe I’ve reached this milestone already. To celebrate I decided to create a hide-and-seek gnome picture challenge today. I have been surprised by how many gnome and fairy villages I have seen on my adventures thus…

A Road Divided I started my trip down Forest Road at the southern end of the street. Our friends the Katzenberger’s live near the intersection of Clifton Road (not Boulevard) and Forest Road, and Nora Katzenberger joined me on the walk. The most unique thing about Forest is that it is almost perfectly split in…

Curve Ball This morning I walked the second (alphabetically) of the three consecutive “Cliff” streets heading north off Lake Avenue, having recently completed Erie Cliff on Eclipse Day. At the entry to Forest Cliff there was a long, curving stone wall that looked like it could be from the 1800s (and maybe it was). The…

Follow the Red Brick Road I got to hang out in Lakewood’s Southside this morning. Fischer is one the few streets in Lakewood south of the highway. I biked all the way down Riverside to get to the neighborhood, and as soon as I turned down the street I noticed it was completely paved in…

I Needed a Shot Today would have been tops on the list of days I would not have taken a bike ride if I wasn’t doing this A to Z Challenge. The rain was pelting sideways, the wind was blowing in gusts, and the streets and sidewalks were filled with extra-large puddles. I was never…