Author: Paco Marshall
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Kentucky, feeling lucky. April 1 – 5, 2019
For the past few years l have been hearing about Kentucky from mine and Tootie’s Chapel Hill NC friend Maxine Mills, who hails originally from the Bluegrass State. Previously all I had known about Kentucky were caricatures from the media. The first forty seconds of this upcoming clip are the best. My friend…
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39 Hours in South Florida to see the Brightline, March 4- 5, 2019
$148.00 round trip nonstop (including luggage) from Raleigh/Durham to Fort Lauderdale on a decent airline (Southwest) was too good a deal to pass up. It had been cold and rainy in North Carolina. I could have two full days of bike riding down there with only one night in a hotel, because the…
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Right outside of Delacroix, LA; Feb. 24, 2019
Tootie and I have been staying more and more frequently at our friend Kirk’s place in New Orleans. It is relaxing just to hang out there. This time we stayed in the upstairs unit. It looks out over the street. Kirk allows us to store bicycles in the crawl space under her…
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Halifax and Franklin County NC, Feb. 7, 2019
Just to see something new, I put the bicycle in the car and drove the Toyota Prius about eighty miles from my home in Chapel Hill to Centerville NC. It is sixty miles northeast of Raleigh NC, or twelve miles northeast of Louisburg NC. The population of Centerville NC is listed as eighty-nine, but they…
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