Month: March 2016
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Lynchburg VA, March 23, 2016
Driving in from the south, you enter Lynchburg in a flurry of strip malls filled with all the major stores. Target. Walmart. Sam’s Club. Border’s Books. Dick’s Sporting Goods. Old Navy, and many many more. Just as I was turning the car left, I saw this guy. Welcome to America. I have been here several […]
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Myrtle Beach SC, March 15-16,2016
I did my first Tour of Myrtle Beach a little over two years ago. In the spirit of investigation, I decided to revisit the place. Let me clear two misconceptions about Myrtle Beach. The main attraction, whatever that attraction is, is probably not the beach. Not everybody who visits here is from The South. So […]
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Jacksonville Skyline, March 5, 2016
Another version. (Can you imagine keeping everyone waiting while on national television?) Jacksonville, North Carolina, population 70,000 is the largest city in North Carolina that I had never visited. Its location is remote, Down East near the coast, but still not at an actual beach. It is a military town dominated by […]
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Charlotte to Greensboro to Chapel Hill, a la carte, Feb. 25-27, 2016
I was almost done with my month-long sobriety; no alcohol during February. I had done this as a self-imposed act of denial, sort of Lent for a non-believer, suggested by a friend in Chapel Hill who was doing the same. Still on the wagon, I took off to bicycle 163 miles in three days […]
urban bicycle journeys 