Category: Central North Carolina trips
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Chapel Hill NC to Richmond VA in 3-1/2 days, March 28-31 2016; Day One
I had a dentist appointment on Monday morning at 8:00 AM; having a tooth crowned. After almost three hours in the chair, and with a mouth still numb from anesthetic, I came home and made myself a smoothie, the one thing that does not require chewing. I drank it while I finished packing. Ten…
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C.H. to Richmond; day two: Soul City
I did not take the most direct route north from Henderson, because I really wanted to bicycle through Soul City. First, I did see inner city Henderson. The restaurant George’s was indeed there, but everything else looked mostly commercially vacant. Henderson was also a big textile manufacturing town. Rather than just describing war…
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Charlotte to Greensboro to Chapel Hill, a la carte, Feb. 25-27, 2016
I was almost done with my month-long sobriety; no alcohol during February. I had done this as a self-imposed act of denial, sort of Lent for a non-believer, suggested by a friend in Chapel Hill who was doing the same. Still on the wagon, I took off to bicycle 163 miles in three days…
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One day spin to Cary NC, Oct. 31, 2015
The United States is becoming a tribal culture. The Big Sort is rapidly underway, where were are all desperately moving to be around only those who think like we do. My friends, the children of my friends, and even my own children are all moving around the United States and abroad, searching for that perfect…
urban bicycle journeys 