Month: December 2016
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New Orleans downriver to Braithwaite LA, Dec. 17, 2016
Tootie and I were staying in uptown New Orleans over a long weekend. I took the opportunity to take a day bike ride downriver. While I almost never play golf, first in about 1987 and as recently as about 2003 I had played golf at one of the more unusual municipal golf courses in […]
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Greenville and Farmville NC, Dec. 7, 2016
I drove the Honda towards Down East, into that vast coastal plain of eastern North Carolina. Pretty much at random I parked the car at a CVS just outside of Farmville. Yes, just last week I was in Farmville, Virginia (population 8,500), and for some reason this week I ended up in Farmville, North […]
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With Tootie on High Bridge Trail, Farmville VA, Dec 2, 2016
High Bridge Trail State Park is a thirty-one mile long east-west rail trail in rural Virginia. The trail crosses through the town of Farmville around its midpoint. I sold this as being “an hour had a half” straight north of Chapel Hill, but it is 120 miles and at least two and a half […]
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Sunday in Fayetteville, Nov.27, 2016
You can drive to Fayetteville NC from Chapel Hill in a little over an hour. It is the home of the large army base Fort Bragg and is a very different place than Chapel Hill. You can sense a different worldview. Following my urbanist tendencies, I headed downtown, looking for a place to park […]
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