Author: Paco Marshall
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Cycling a corner of Montgomery County, North Carolina, February 8, 2021
It is about seventy miles and an hour and a half drive from my home in Chapel Hill NC to Biscoe NC. I had guessed the area was likely to be free of car traffic. I had never been here before. Biscoe (population 1,700) and the surrounding Montgomery County (population 28,000) are in a remote…
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Tour of Sussex County, Virginia; February 4, 2021
Sussex County Virginia has not grown much over the years. Its population in the year 1790 was 11,000; population 2021: 11,000. It is near enough to my home in Chapel Hill NC for a day trip. I drove up two and a half hours and 145 miles up I-85. The Sussex courthouse and other municipal…
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Climax to Liberty (and Liberty to Climax!) January 22, 2021
It’s not as outrageous sounding as the actual town of Intercourse PA but who knew there was a Climax NC? Fifteen miles south of Greensboro? I needed a starting point for an afternoon’s bike ride. Climax NC is only ten or twelve miles from Liberty NC, so this made for a nice rural thirty mile…
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Architecture: two hours cycling through west Raleigh, December 29, 2020
I drove the half hour over to Raleigh from my home in Chapel Hill. I like looking at buildings. I street parked on the near side in the neighborhood off Wade Avenue, just behind Whole Foods. It was cold outside, I had gloves and a hood. I started biking around, taking pictures of modern buildings…
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