Category: Central North Carolina trips
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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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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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