Category: Central North Carolina trips
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Suburbia: Five Points Raleigh to Wake Forest, and back: Sunday August 30, 2015
Wake Forest is a small town twenty miles northeast of Raleigh. Most of you already know that Wake Forest University is not in Wake Forest. The Reynolds tobacco people donated so much money to Wake Forest College that in 1956 they moved the college a hundred miles west to Winston-Salem. Since the move by…
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Bicycling in the cold, February 20, 2015
Today was the coldest day I can remember here; low of seven degrees in the morning; predicted high of twenty-three. But the day was bright and sunny, with very little wind. Just to see if I could do it, I did the fifteen mile Tootie Loop, departing about eleven a.m. when it was fifteen…
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Multiculturalism in Cary NC; September 7, 2014
I biked from Chapel Hill to Raleigh and back last Sunday. Much of the ride goes through Cary. People in Chapel Hill give Cary a lot of grief; they deride it as faceless suburbia. Indeed, there are miles and miles of subdivisions with names like The Villages at Prestonwood. But I defy anyone to…
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Raleigh revisited, a Saturday ride to Clayton 3/15/14
The New York Times recently ran a Travel section article “36 Hours, Raleigh NC”. It said how much has changed in the past few years, that Raleigh is coming into its own as an interesting city. Living in Chapel Hill, I dismissed this as New York Times hype. From this ride on…
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