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Back in the early 1980s, Southwest Florida was about as bike unfriendly as an area could get. Bike lanes, paved shoulders and shared sidepaths weren’t what traffic engineers cared about — they just needed traffic lanes to keep up with the double digit rate of population growth, so that’s what they built. But things have changed.

Dining al fresco has always been de rigueur in these parts, but it’s even more fashionable since COVID became a worldwide concern. Happily for those of us who live in the subtropics, it’s a fine time to dine outdoors, and there are plenty of places offering us the opportunity to do so.