Recently I recommended A Little Princess to a younger cousin and she loved it! It was a big deal because we bonded over the bakery scene (iykyk). It made me nostalgic forA Tree Grows in Brooklyn or Little House in the Big Woods. Just humans surviving without much but being mostly content.
I’ve read most of the more popular ones - latest one was probably The Four Winds and the weirdest was The Silo series. I’m looking for similar recommendations with descriptions of day to day life with a cosy feeling.
Fiction please.
Found someone's EarPods today (Sunday, 11/29) hiking the trails in Hardscrabble. Would love to return them to owner. Let me know if you've lost them.
Hello! I’ve just finished reading The Children’s Blizzard and The Four Winds. They both have me hankering for similar fiction. I would love to read about women (young or old) making the most of it.
I loved the Laura Ingall Wilder and Rose Wilder books, I’ve read My Antonia, Anne of Green Gables, Sarah Plain and Tall (I consider these childhood books), The Grapes of Wrath, East of Edwin, and most of the recent big survival themes ie The Great Alone, Where the Crawdads Sing. I also LOVED A Little Princess (the scene where she finds the money to buy one bun and the baker gives her an extra, BLISS).
The perfect book would be similar to The Long Winter by Laura Ingall Wilder with a touch of Dry by Neal Schusterman and I am Still Alive by Kate Alice Marshall.
I don’t mind the time period but I love when there’s lots of description of day to day life. Surviving hard times, natural disaster, would be perfect.
Please and thank you.
Also, if you could point me in the direction of that particular genre, that would be fantastic :)
Edit: preferably instrumental, but will take lyrical songs too to get the flavour :)
I'm posting this as a new thread now that we've settled on a date. To celebrate the holiday season, the /r/Velo Philly Gang in conjunction with the /r/Velo New York Mob is presenting a two-part holiday ride series. This is Stage 1. Stage 2 will be announced later (tentatively scheduled for 12/23 in Pennsylvania)
Ride Details
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Date and time: 9am on this Saturday (12/8)
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Starting Point: Princeton Junction train station, 2 Wallace Circle, Princeton Junction, NJ 08550. This is accessible via NJ Transit train or by car (public lot with $5 daily parking)
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Route: 117 km, 5,100 ft of climbing, road terrain
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Current weather forecast is 35 and cloudy, but we will be monitoring. Bad weather cancels/reschedules
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There will be post-ride food & libations at Winberies in Princeton
Please RSVP to me by sending a PM with your contact info.
If you can't make it this time, don't worry - we are planning a Philly-area ride for 12/23.
Hi everyone,
u/R3vots brought up this idea during a FTF a few weeks back. We're looking to do some sort of festive seasonal holiday ride, based in the Philly area. I figured I would open up a discussion for possible routes and dates.
We're thinking at least a metric century, possibly an imperial century. With or without hills, but if it's hilly, we'll plan not to totally smash each other (or at least regroup occasionally after smashing each other). Road or gravel is okay, I think most of the gang races CX (or fails hard at CX but does a lot of gravel).
I wanted to open up this post for us to discuss availability and route selections. The ride is open to anyone on /r/velo to attend, but I'd like to try to keep the starting point within about an hour's drive of Philly. If there's significant interest from the /r/velo NYC Mafia, we could try to plan something in central Jersey, I just don't know that area very well.
For me personally, the best dates would be either Saturday 12/8, Sunday 12/9, Sunday 12/23, Monday 12/31, or Tuesday 1/1. For any of those dates, I would be happy to host post-ride pizza and beer at my house in Delco.
Here is my first blush at route options, keeping in mind that I don't know much of the stuff to the north or the east of the city.
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Option 1: We start at Ridley Creek State park and ride west out to Glen Mills, West Chester, Thornbury, etc. This is fairly hilly terrain, around 100 ft/mile, and there's not a whole lot of flat road. Roads are narrow and get a bit uncomfortable if traffic is busy.
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Option 2: We start in Pocopson and ride west out to Kennett Square, Cheslen Preserve, etc. This starts further from the city, but the roads are quieter and more scenic than starting at RCSP. Additionally, there is the opportunity to do lots of awesome gravel climbs out there, like Hilltop View Road and Five Points. I know most of the gang has gravel-capable bikes so this might be a lot of fun
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Option 3: We start at the Art Museum and head vaguely northwest. This is fairly unfamiliar territory for me, but I know BCP does rides up that way.
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Option 4: We start in Valley Forge - again, this isn't a route I'm familiar with, but I know it's popular.
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Option 5: We start in Swedesboro (New Jersey) and head down towards Bridgeton, near the river - there are a lot of flat quiet roads out that way, and we cou
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