Author: Paco Marshall
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Chicago Midway to Milwaukee; September 8 – 12, 2016
For those of you who wonder how I do this when I travel by air, my PBW brand folding bicycle fits in a plastic Samsonite suitcase. I carry my clothes and stuff in a small trunk bag that I strap to the back rack of the bicycle. The trunk bag has a shoulder strap…
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Biking to Richmond with Tootie, Sept. 4 – 5, 2016
I had read about the recently completed Virginia Capital Trail, a delightful paved bike path that runs over fifty miles from Williamsburg to Richmond, along Virginia state route 10 on the north shore of the James River. Historic plantations, many from the 1600’s, line the route. The original Virginia colonial settlement of 1607, …
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Flashback: Tarboro NC in the year 2002
On a Saturday in 2002 I managed to get away for about twenty four hours total. The memories of my one night in Tarboro are still so vivid that I want to share this story. It would be eight or nine years before I started writing a blog about my bicycle adventures. I…
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More of The Mountains: Blue Ridge Parkway and Boone; July 31-Aug 1, 2016
Tootie needed to go to Roaring Gap for a day, so I had her drop me off near there on the Blue Ridge Parkway. This is in northwestern North Carolina, about twenty miles south of Galax, Virginia. My plan was to bicycle down the Parkway to Boone, spend the night, then come back…
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