Author: Paco Marshall
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The Bayou: Thibodaux and Houma LA, 1/28-29, 2012
The bayou means all sorts of things, especially in popular music. CCR did “Born on the Bayou”, although I doubt they had ever been to an actual bayou. Even in the city of New Orleans a bayou can mean several things. Many times “the Bayou” refers to the entire rural watery region south and west of…
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Northeast Florida; Deland to Daytona Beach to Jacksonville 1/19-22/2012
Whatever you say about Florida, when viewed from the road, most parts look uniquely Floridian. There are streets and buildings that look like nowhere else. I mean, what else looks like Marineland, from 1938? California would never be so green. Where else can you go for a hog hunt? Where else but Daytona do guns and motorcycles get so…
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Burlington NC, some modern architecture
This is a good route to ride on a Sunday, when there is not much traffic. Burlington has miles of empty textile factories; they have been here since the mid nineteenth century. Most closed down in just the past ten years. There are a few left operating still. On NC87 from Graham to…
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The Jersey Shore, October 15 – 18 2011
Sure, I know, Joey Buttafuoco is from Long Island, not the Jersey Shore. And I actually have never seen more than five minutes of the TV reality show Jersey Shore. I did like the movie My Cousin Vinnie. As a Southerner, this kind of style and lifestyle of the Northeast seems exotic to me. So I wanted to…
urban bicycle journeys 