Month: April 2020
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The Coronavirus Diaries: Part Eleven: Stoneville to Eden NC; April 26, 2020
On these coronavirus rides I drive my car somewhere and take a bike ride of just a few hours. I keep totally away from people. I do not stop at any establishments. I bring my own food and water. My son Jack’s girlfriend Mary Hannah is now is in graduate school at UNC but was […]
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The Coronavirus Diaries, Part Ten: Cary NC and the burbs, April 17, 2020
This was another bike ride where I touched nothing and neither talked to or allowed myself to be near anyone. Although I could have started biking directly from my apartment I chose to drive the first few miles and then leave the car at a mall parking lot. You may remember that a week […]
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The Coronavirus Diaries, Part Nine: Greensboro NC-South Side/East Side; April 12, 2020
While Chapel Hill is considered part of the Triangle of Chapel Hill / Durham / Raleigh; Greensboro, population about 300,000 and the third largest city in North Carolina is not that far away to the west, especially from Chapel Hill. It is forty-six miles from my Chapel Hill condo to downtown Greensboro and there […]
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The Coronavirus Diaries; Part Eight; Bicentennial Trail to High Point; April 9, 2020
I wanted to bicycle (for once) on a road or trail that I had never cycled on before but was also near where I live. This is the eighth part in a series of bicycle rides that are done alone without touching anything, not going to a store, not talking to or getting near anyone. […]
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