Category: Central North Carolina trips
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The Uwharries of Central North Carolina; January 10-12, 2023
It was about thirty degrees outside at eight-thirty on a Tuesday morning when I headed out by bicycle for a three day trip from my home in Chapel Hill NC. Brrrrrr. I was in search of parts of North Carolina I had never seen. I did not intentionally set out to ride through the Uwharrie…
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Biking for barbecue, Thomasville to Lexington NC; September 9, 2021
Barbecue is delicious but so are healthier alternatives. Before leaving home I had a breakfast of avocado toast, Weaver Street Market french bread drizzled with olive oil, then spread with ripe avocado, sea salt, a few drops of sriracha hot sauce, and a sprinkling of diced arugula. A very non-barbecue breakfast! It was so succulent…
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Cycling through grief
Many of you know that my son Sam Marshall died on April 24, 2021. He had been living in Vietnam, teaching English. It has been a difficult time for me, my wife Tootie and our son Jack. Sam and I did not take many bike trips together but we had done other stuff instead. I…
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Ramble around Gibsonville, February 16, 2021
Is there too much traffic on a week day for safe bicycling on rural roads anywhere near I-85 in central North Carolina? The hundred and sixty miles of I-85 between Raleigh and Charlotte is rapidly becoming one big city, an I-85 megalopolis. I parked our Prius in the U.S. Post office of Whitsett NC, less…
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