Month: June 2020

• The Coronavirus Diaries, Part Eighteen, Black Lives Matter in Richmond VA; June 14, 2020

  I really like Richmond, which is a two and a half hour / 166 mile drive from my home in Chapel Hill.  I can drive up there for the day.   On this trip I wanted to see the condition of the Confederate statues on Monument Avenue.   I drove off the freeway and looked […]

  Paco Marshall

  June 18, 2020

  Coronavirus Diaries 2020, Virginia trips

• The Coronavirus Diaries: Part Seventeen; Southside Virginia; June 7, 2020

  About two weeks ago a friend emailed and asked if I could do my next bike ride to Chase City VA and document it.   This was a first.  How could I refuse?  He is an old friend and has been an enthusiastic reader of my blog.  He really wanted to read about Chase City. […]

  Paco Marshall

  June 15, 2020

  Coronavirus Diaries 2020, Virginia trips

• The Coronavirus Diaries, Part Sixteen: Laurinburg and its unusual airport; May 26, 2020

  I parked at a gas station/mini-mart just to the north of town.   There seemed to be plenty of spaces so maybe no one would care if I left our car there for 3 – 4 hours.   I was about a mile north of downtown Laurinburg.   Laurinburg (population 16,000) is ninety miles south […]

  Paco Marshall

  June 6, 2020

  Central North Carolina trips, Coronavirus Diaries 2020