Author: Paco Marshall
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C.H. to Richmond; day two: Soul City
I did not take the most direct route north from Henderson, because I really wanted to bicycle through Soul City. First, I did see inner city Henderson. The restaurant George’s was indeed there, but everything else looked mostly commercially vacant. Henderson was also a big textile manufacturing town. Rather than just describing war…
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C.H. to Richmond; day three, US-1 to Petersburg
Once a bicyclist gets north of South Hill, US-1, which parallels I-85, is amazingly empty. For many stretches cars would come by only every five minutes or so. Some of the way it was four lane divided, but mostly was three lane. When I was a kid in the 1960’s my Dad…
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C.H. to Richmond, day four, Petersburg to Richmond
US-301 extends from the bridge leaving from downtown Petersburg into Colonial Heights, and then twenty-three miles to central Richmond. It is one of the ugliest stretches of road in America, rivaling even Chef Menteur Highway in New Orleans. It is congested with various levels of strip malls, stretching from middle class in Colonial Heights…
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Lynchburg VA, March 23, 2016
Driving in from the south, you enter Lynchburg in a flurry of strip malls filled with all the major stores. Target. Walmart. Sam’s Club. Border’s Books. Dick’s Sporting Goods. Old Navy, and many many more. Just as I was turning the car left, I saw this guy. Welcome to America. I have been here several…
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