Month: April 2017
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Walking to Durham; or: UNC to Duke in about five hours, April 13, 2017
Downtown to downtown, depending on route, it is 12-14 miles from Chapel Hill to Durham. Our local governments are in the final stages of deciding whether to spend about two BILLION dollars building a light rail line that would connect Chapel Hill and Durham, especially UNC Hospital and Duke Hospital. But these same local […]
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The bungalows of Durham’s Chapel Hill Road
Walking along Chapel Hill Road on the west side of Durham, I had never noticed the quantity and quality of 1920’s looking bungalow houses in this area. They must have all been built about the same time. They are generally big houses with enormous deep front porches. This part of town does not seem […]
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Way Down East NC, April 1-2, 2017
Northeastern North Carolina, inland from the beach was the first part of North Carolina settled by Europeans. It is also the poorest, most rural, and most heavily African American part of the state. I had the bicycle in the trunk as I parked the car at about noon on a Saturday in the town […]
urban bicycle journeys 