Month: January 2012
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Northeast Florida; Deland to Daytona Beach to Jacksonville 1/19-22/2012
Whatever you say about Florida, when viewed from the road, most parts look uniquely Floridian. There are streets and buildings that look like nowhere else. I mean, what else looks like Marineland, from 1938? California would never be so green. Where else can you go for a hog hunt? Where else but Daytona do guns and motorcycles get so […]
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Burlington NC, some modern architecture
This is a good route to ride on a Sunday, when there is not much traffic. Burlington has miles of empty textile factories; they have been here since the mid nineteenth century. Most closed down in just the past ten years. There are a few left operating still. On NC87 from Graham to […]
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The Jersey Shore, October 15 – 18 2011
Sure, I know, Joey Buttafuoco is from Long Island, not the Jersey Shore. And I actually have never seen more than five minutes of the TV reality show Jersey Shore. I did like the movie My Cousin Vinnie. As a Southerner, this kind of style and lifestyle of the Northeast seems exotic to me. So I wanted to […]
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