Author: Paco Marshall
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The South: Darlington-Cheraw SC, Dec. 1-2, 2012
The flat coastal plains of Darlington County stretched out ahead of me; cotton fields and trailers strewn across the landscape. Was this what Bruce Springsteen had in mind when he wrote the song “Darlington County”? This is an area northwest of Myrtle Beach, just over the North Carolina line from Laurenburg and Rockingham. Rural South…
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NOVA, rail trail across Northern Virginia; Nov. 17-18, 2012
The Washington and Old Dominion Trail runs from downtown Alexandria to way out past Leesburg. This runs through the heart of suburban sprawl; a delightful converted rail line, full paved, going through all the Northern Virginia suburbs that I have always heard about and (thankfully) never even really visited. Arlington. Falls Church. Vienna. Reston. …
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Searching for Don Draper (or Rob Petrie), Westchester NY, 10/27-28/2012
This trip was to be about the New York City suburbs. Don Draper lived in Ossining NY. He commuted every weekday on the train to the advertising office in Manhattan. Sometimes he drove the distance in his 1962 Cadillac. As fate would have it, due to Hurricane Sandy, I never made it to Ossining; I…
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Lancaster PA; September 15-16, 2012
This was another ride like General Lee; I wanted to invade the North. Even though I love The South, it is interesting to escape it into something approaching Yankee urbanism. I parked the car about noon on a Saturday morning in a Walmart parking lot just off I-83 in Shrewsbury PA, five miles…
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