Category: Central North Carolina trips
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The bungalows of Durham’s Chapel Hill Road
Walking along Chapel Hill Road on the west side of Durham, I had never noticed the quantity and quality of 1920’s looking bungalow houses in this area. They must have all been built about the same time. They are generally big houses with enormous deep front porches. This part of town does not seem…
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Teardowns in Charlotte, March 22, 2017
I needed to drive 140 miles to pick up Tootie and Kathryn from an evening arrival at the Charlotte airport. Using the opportunity I got to Charlotte early, parked the car, took my bicycle out of the trunk and spent most of the day looping though the streets of Charlotte. I took lots of…
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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…
urban bicycle journeys 