Category: Central North Carolina trips
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Siler City to Chapel Hill, January 31, 2017
The wind was blowing hard and predicted to be from the southwest, with gusts up to thirty miles an hour. Tootie suggested she drive me and my bicycle thirty-five miles southwest of Chapel Hill so that I could bike with the wind. I got out of the car in the parking of lot…
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Greenways in Raleigh, January 27, 2016
I applaud their existence but I usually only bike on greenways when I have to. There is so much more to look at when biking on neighborhood streets! Still, Raleigh has built in just the last few years a top-notch 112 mile system called the Capital Area Greenway. I biked around a lot of those…
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Lunchtime in Mebane, May 16, 2016
For years, I have been predicting that Mebane would become the next Carrboro, the next Saxapahaw, the next former mill town to where creative types priced out of Chapel Hill can relocate. I rode out to Mebane to eat lunch, then ride back, a little over twenty miles each way from my home in Chapel…
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Ellerbe NC, April 6, 2016
Has anyone heard of Ellerbe NC? It is in Richmond county, twenty-six miles west of Southern Pines. I had driven down to the Sandhills area on a Wednesday morning, looking for some other part of North Carolina to discover. In the center of the triangle formed by Pinehurst, Southern Pines and Aberdeen sit the…
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