Baker's Dozen II (Part 1)

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Notable Rivers outside the U.S.

  1. Loire
  2. Nile
  3. Ganges
  4. Rhine
  5. Yang-tse
  6. Danube
  7. Limpopo
  8. Congo
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Notable Rivers outside the U.S.

  1. Loire
  2. Nile
  3. Ganges
  4. Rhine
  5. Yang-tse
  6. Danube
  7. Limpopo
  8. Congo
  9. Amazon
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Notable Rivers outside the U.S.

  1. Loire
  2. Nile
  3. Ganges
  4. Rhine
  5. Yang-tse
  6. Danube
  7. Limpopo
  8. Congo
  9. Amazon
  10. Baranduin AKA Brandywine

In Middle-Earth on the border of the Shire, Brandywine being what hobbits call it

@Elendil_s_Heir my younger brother and my kids loved hearing “The Elephant’s Child”! They preferred my reading to the Jack Nicholson video that someone gave us

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Notable Rivers outside the U.S.

  1. Loire
  2. Nile
  3. Ganges
  4. Rhine
  5. Yang-tse
  6. Danube
  7. Limpopo
  8. Congo
  9. Amazon
  10. Baranduin AKA Brandywine
  11. Thames
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Notable Rivers outside the U.S.

  1. Loire
  2. Nile
  3. Ganges
  4. Rhine
  5. Yang-tse
  6. Danube
  7. Limpopo
  8. Congo
  9. Amazon
  10. Baranduin AKA Brandywine
  11. Thames
  12. Mekong
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Notable Rivers outside the U.S.

  1. Loire
  2. Nile
  3. Ganges
  4. Rhine
  5. Yang-tse
  6. Danube
  7. Limpopo
  8. Congo
  9. Amazon
  10. Baranduin AKA Brandywine
  11. Thames
  12. Mekong
  13. Volga

(in recognition of the Tour de France, currently underway)
Multiple-Day Bicycle Stage Races (current or historic)

  1. The Tour DuPont

-“BB”-

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(in recognition of the Tour de France, currently underway)
Multiple-Day Bicycle Stage Races (current or historic)

  1. The Tour DuPont
  2. Vuelta a España
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(in recognition of the Tour de France, currently underway)
Multiple-Day Bicycle Stage Races (current or historic)

  1. The Tour DuPont
  2. Vuelta a España
  3. Giro d’Italia
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(in recognition of the Tour de France, currently underway)
Multiple-Day Bicycle Stage Races (current or historic)

  1. The Tour DuPont
  2. Vuelta a España
  3. Giro d’Italia
  4. Tour de Suisse
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(in recognition of the Tour de France, currently underway)
Multiple-Day Bicycle Stage Races (current or historic)

  1. The Tour DuPont
  2. Vuelta a España
  3. Giro d’Italia
  4. Tour de Suisse
  5. Tour de Pologne
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gkster, my dad read “The Elephant’s Child” to my sisters and me, too. Good stuff. And a few years ago I had the chance to visit and spend a weekend in the house where Kipling wrote it: Naulakha (Rudyard Kipling House) - Wikipedia

(in recognition of the Tour de France, currently underway)
Multiple-Day Bicycle Stage Races (current or historic)

  1. The Tour DuPont
  2. Vuelta a España
  3. Giro d’Italia
  4. Tour de Suisse
  5. Tour de Pologne
  6. Tour de France

Why not go for the obvious?

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(in recognition of the Tour de France, currently underway)
Multiple-Day Bicycle Stage Races (current or historic)

  1. The Tour DuPont
  2. Vuelta a España
  3. Giro d’Italia
  4. Tour de Suisse
  5. Tour de Pologne
  6. Tour de France
  7. Tour of California
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(in recognition of the Tour de France, currently underway)
Multiple-Day Bicycle Stage Races (current or historic)

  1. The Tour DuPont
  2. Vuelta a España
  3. Giro d’Italia
  4. Tour de Suisse
  5. Tour de Pologne
  6. Tour de France
  7. Tour of California
  8. Bike Around the Bay
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(in recognition of the Tour de France, currently underway)
Multiple-Day Bicycle Stage Races (current or historic)

  1. The Tour DuPont
  2. Vuelta a España
  3. Giro d’Italia
  4. Tour de Suisse
  5. Tour de Pologne
  6. Tour de France
  7. Tour of California
  8. Bike Around the Bay
  9. Tour Down Under (Australia)

@Elendil_s_Heir how did you like Naulakha? I remember looking at the website years ago and it’s only 4 1/2 hours from us, but somehow we rarely go to Vermont; the last time we stayed there was 2018, and before that, 2005

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I enjoyed my weekend stay there with some high school buddies very much. It’s been well-restored and is in a beautiful hilly, wooded area. Each of us read a favorite bit of Kipling aloud one night. My friend Gary read an excerpt from Captains Courageous, which he’d loved since he was a kid, and then was amazed and pleased to learn that Kipling had written the book under that very roof.

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Just curious … is #8 (Bike Around the Bay) an actual competitive race or a multi-day recreational tour, similar to the cross-state rides like RAGBRAI and others of that ilk?

-“BB”-

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Well I sure thought it was a race! Turns out it’s like a walk-a-thon on bicycles (bike-a-thon?). It is the only bike race thingy I am familiar with, as it goes through my neck of the woods every year.

The amended list:

(in recognition of the Tour de France, currently underway)
Multiple-Day Bicycle Stage Races (current or historic)

  1. The Tour DuPont
  2. Vuelta a España
  3. Giro d’Italia
  4. Tour de Suisse
  5. Tour de Pologne
  6. Tour de France
  7. Tour of California
  8. Tour Down Under (Australia)
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(in recognition of the Tour de France, currently underway)
Multiple-Day Bicycle Stage Races (current or historic)

  1. The Tour DuPont
  2. Vuelta a España
  3. Giro d’Italia
  4. Tour de Suisse
  5. Tour de Pologne
  6. Tour de France
  7. Tour of California
  8. Tour Down Under (Australia)
  9. Race Across America (RAAM)
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Housekeeping:

(in recognition of the Tour de France, currently underway)
Multiple-Day Bicycle Stage Races (current or historic)

  1. The Tour DuPont
  2. Vuelta a España
  3. Giro d’Italia
  4. Tour de Suisse
  5. Tour de Pologne
  6. Tour de France
  7. Tour of California
  8. Bike Around the Bay
  9. Tour Down Under (Australia)
  10. Race Across America (RAAM)
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(in recognition of the Tour de France, currently underway)
Multiple-Day Bicycle Stage Races (current or historic)

  1. The Tour DuPont
  2. Vuelta a España
  3. Giro d’Italia
  4. Tour de Suisse
  5. Tour de Pologne
  6. Tour de France
  7. Tour of California
  8. Bike Around the Bay
  9. Tour Down Under (Australia)
  10. Race Across America (RAAM)
  11. Tour de Limousin