Author: Paco Marshall
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The Coronavirus Diaries, part seven: with Tootie on the Neuse River Trail; April 5, 2020
Of course I had never read, or even previously heard of, Albert Camus’ 1947 novel “The Plague.” The book has now been mentioned several times in recent publications. It describes a French town during a plague. A New Yorker reader named Kyra Morris pointed out one scene where two principal characters of the…
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The Coronavirus Diaries; part six; starting at Crabtree Valley in Raleigh; April 3, 2020
There was not much competition for a parking space for our white Prius at Crabtree Valley Mall, likely the largest mall in the Raleigh/Durham area, six miles from downtown Raleigh. I pulled out the Surly Long Haul Trucker out of the back. Crabtree Valley Mall sits on Crabtree Creek and the Crabtree Creek…
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The Coronavirus Diaries, Part Five: To Durham and back, March 29, 2020
I was going to take a bicycle ride to Durham without touching anyone or anything and without getting within twenty feet of a person, unless I happened to be passing that person at twenty miles an hour. I keep my bicycles on the commercial parking level of our building Greenbridge. Tootie and I have…
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The Coronavirus Diaries; part four: Henderson, Soul City, and Warrenton NC; March 26, 2020
This bicycle ride was once again to get out of the house but not further this pandemic. The solo bike ride would start in Henderson NC and continue to the towns of Soul City and Warrenton. Compared to those places Henderson NC (population 15,000) felt like the Big City. It was and is the…
urban bicycle journeys 