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Day and night at the library

Night at the Library

I cycled by the library and decided to stop there for the middle of the day, not to burn on the sun. Then the rain came. Then the rain stopped, but the night came.

The library closed at 9 PM. I introduced myself to the local police so they knew what I was going to do – to hang my hammock somewhere around the library. It wasn’t supposed to rain at night, but it did. Plus thunderstorm.
With the first drops, around 1 AM, I jumped out of my hammock, grabbed it and the bike, and hide under the tiny porch. Just for a sec, because it was light on with a lot of mosquitos around. I packed quickly and cycled to the police station under the first flash of lightning.
I was seating for a couple of hours there, playing with my new phone, then cycled back to the library, hanged a hammock again, and slept till 8 AM, when first people drove in to drop their books. There was a McDonald’s nearby, so I cycled there for the bathroom, while the library was still closed, and I took off towards Portsmouth.
 

  BIKE RIDES

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From journalism and car racing in Russia to teaching at the University in South Africa, where she won Alliance de France and the British Consulate international photo contests, she switched paths: earned a silver medal at the 2011 World Masters Athletics USA, hiked the 2,081-mile Appalachian Trail, navigated the Amazon from Peru to Brazil, biked Route 66 from Chicago to LA, from London to Orkney, and from Canada to Key West, and launched an art project at Midcoast Maine. During lockdown drove to Olympic Valley Palisades Tahoe where became a ski and swim instructor, then… well, enough for now.