After lunch in Muskegon I launch to the north, getting to 6, 000 feet, and listen carefully to the 180hp engine before heading west over cold, lonely Lake Michigan.

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That doesn't mean that I bounce out of bed at 4 a.m. on the days that I go to the local YMCA for the spinning class, that I haven't wanted to stay in bed on a cold, snowy morning instead of heading across town to do swim drills.

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While many holiday revellers spend Christmas tucking in to a bird with all the trimmings, Sydney locals eat from a cold menu of seafood and prawns before heading to the beach on Christmas Day.

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Meteorologists were blaming the nor'easter on the collision of two storm systems: cold air traveling south from Canada bumping into a moist low pressure system heading north from the Carolinas.

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