Author: Paco Marshall
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Savannah and the traffic, Dec 16-17, 2018
Savannah GA is supposed to be a nice place. I wanted to visit there by bicycle, but I made the mistake of trying to bicycle into it from thirty miles out. I discovered how difficult and dangerous it is to bicycle into Savannah from outside the city. Like a lot of port cities…
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Touring the Ninth Ward by Schwinn Typhoon, with Tootie, December 2, 2018
This is a story of a bicycle (Schwinn Typhoon) and a neighborhood (New Orleans’ Ninth Ward.). I have been taking longer distance bike rides for over fifty years, starting when I was about twelve years old. These first trips were on the bicycle I then owned, a Schwinn Typhoon. My friends and I rode…
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The Grand Strand, November 10-11, 2018
Hardly anybody from Chapel Hill goes to Myrtle Beach anymore. Snobbism has taken hold. This is too bad because Myrtle Beach can be a fascinating place, and it has a beach! It is a string of beach towns that are marketed as The Grand Strand. I wanted to go somewhere for one night.…
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Wilson to Rocky Mount NC, and back, Nov. 3, 2018
Wilson and Rocky Mount NC are similar cities twenty miles apart. Rocky Mount initially was based on textile manufacturing and Wilson on raw and bulk tobacco. I parked the Prius in a Walmart parking lot two or three miles from downtown Wilson. I bicycled through the more prosperous and woody residential neighborhoods on…
urban bicycle journeys 