Category: Central North Carolina trips
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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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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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