Category: Central North Carolina trips
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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…
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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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