Author: Paco Marshall
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An hour or two in Norfolk; Dec. 28, 2016
I drove from Chapel Hill to see Mom and my sisters and nieces in Virginia Beach, and found time to park the car in downtown Norfolk, take out the bicycle and bike around Norfolk on a cold afternoon in late December. Biking around downtown, I could see that Norfolk is still recovering from being essentially torn…
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New Orleans downriver to Braithwaite LA, Dec. 17, 2016
Tootie and I were staying in uptown New Orleans over a long weekend. I took the opportunity to take a day bike ride downriver. While I almost never play golf, first in about 1987 and as recently as about 2003 I had played golf at one of the more unusual municipal golf courses in…
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Greenville and Farmville NC, Dec. 7, 2016
I drove the Honda towards Down East, into that vast coastal plain of eastern North Carolina. Pretty much at random I parked the car at a CVS just outside of Farmville. Yes, just last week I was in Farmville, Virginia (population 8,500), and for some reason this week I ended up in Farmville, North…
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With Tootie on High Bridge Trail, Farmville VA, Dec 2, 2016
High Bridge Trail State Park is a thirty-one mile long east-west rail trail in rural Virginia. The trail crosses through the town of Farmville around its midpoint. I sold this as being “an hour had a half” straight north of Chapel Hill, but it is 120 miles and at least two and a half…
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