Author: Paco Marshall
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Sunday in Fayetteville, Nov.27, 2016
You can drive to Fayetteville NC from Chapel Hill in a little over an hour. It is the home of the large army base Fort Bragg and is a very different place than Chapel Hill. You can sense a different worldview. Following my urbanist tendencies, I headed downtown, looking for a place to park…
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Trump in Chatham County, Nov. 6, 2016
It was a beautiful day yesterday. I biked all the way from Chapel Hill to Raleigh and back on my PBW folding bicycle. Neomonde Bakery near Meredith College is what Chapel Hill’s Mediterranean Deli should be but is not quite. Hummus, baba ganoush and tabouli salad shout freshness. The pita bread is cooked…
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Pennsylvania: Harrisburg to Philly, Oct 23-26, 2016
Geography students: there is a reason the Battle of Gettysburg happened where it did; if you were a Southerner and wanted to invade the North, Gettysburg would your go-to place, the soft underbelly of Yankeeland, only about ten miles north of the Pennsylvania border which is also called the Mason-Dixon Line. And only thirty-five…
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Cycling across Navarre and Aragon, but first: five days in Barcelona 2016
Delta Airlines had an amazing deal on tickets from Raleigh/Durham to Barcelona, so Tootie, our friend Maxine, and myself bought tickets for late September to spend five days in Barcelona. I added six more days to the trip to do some bicycling by myself in rural Spain after Tootie and Maxine went home. Our…
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