Author: Paco Marshall
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Cycling through eastern France, Oct. 18-31 2017
My buddy Lyman and I stumbled upon some lovely bicycle routes while cycling for almost two weeks through eastern France. We also discovered that France might have some of the same divides that we speak of in red/blue America. Paris looked prosperous and multi-racial. In the rest of France the people looked much more stereotypically French. I am not sure of the…
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Scranton/Wilkes Barre PA to Binghamton NY, Sept. 15-18, 2017
This part of the country does not get many tourists. The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton area was built around coal mining and offshoot heavy industries. The cities have been losing population for the last fifty years. I chose Wilkes-Barre specifically as a starting point because it is right on I-81 which comes up through Virginia. …
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Virgilina VA to South Boston VA, 9/13/2017
When my son Henry was about five years old we drove through the North Carolina/Virginia town of Virgilina. He could not stop saying that word, “Virgilina.” Forty miles north of our hometown of Chapel Hill, Virgilina is not really much of a town. Until recently there was only about one small store there.…
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Detroit to Buffalo via Southern Ontario, 7/31 – 8/5, 2017
I got an opportunity to bicycle across southern Ontario in Canada; the north shore of Lake Erie. It would give me an opportunity find out; is Canada really different? This trip came about when my friend Tom offered me a ride in his car from North Carolina up to the Midwest, where he would be…
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