Category: Central North Carolina trips
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Reidsville NC Moderism, November 17, 2013
The countryside between Reidsville NC and Danville VA makes for a pleasant Sunday bike ride. Reidsville is a struggling factory town, best known for cigarette, textile, and furniture factories. Since there has apparently been little new construction downtown and near downtown in the past fifty years, there are all sorts of modernist commercial…
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Riding the sprawl west from RDU airport 1/29/2013
I rode home to Carrboro from the airport the other day. The town of Morrisville used to be the end of the line for sprawl as Wake County transitions into Chatham County, but that is no longer. I had no idea all this stuff was out here. Several developments masquerading as “towns” have…
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Saxapahaw NC, 2/27/11
The ride to Saxapahaw helped explain some of the cultural diversions that make North Carolina what it is. On this particular Sunday afternoon, I was delayed getting started. With only about three hours to get someplace and back, before dark. I decided to go see friends John and Jackie at their new apartment in Saxapahaw.…
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Greensboro to High Point, 3/5/11
If you want to go by car from I-40 to downtown Greensboro, Lee Street would be a major route; only four miles of divided highway to downtown Greensboro. There are numerous traffic lights. I rode by bike through the four mile stretch that goes past waves of what look to be tract housing from the…
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