Category: Central North Carolina trips
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Cycling through grief
Many of you know that my son Sam Marshall died on April 24, 2021. He had been living in Vietnam, teaching English. It has been a difficult time for me, my wife Tootie and our son Jack. Sam and I did not take many bike trips together but we had done other stuff instead. I…
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Ramble around Gibsonville, February 16, 2021
Is there too much traffic on a week day for safe bicycling on rural roads anywhere near I-85 in central North Carolina? The hundred and sixty miles of I-85 between Raleigh and Charlotte is rapidly becoming one big city, an I-85 megalopolis. I parked our Prius in the U.S. Post office of Whitsett NC, less…
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Cycling a corner of Montgomery County, North Carolina, February 8, 2021
It is about seventy miles and an hour and a half drive from my home in Chapel Hill NC to Biscoe NC. I had guessed the area was likely to be free of car traffic. I had never been here before. Biscoe (population 1,700) and the surrounding Montgomery County (population 28,000) are in a remote…
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Climax to Liberty (and Liberty to Climax!) January 22, 2021
It’s not as outrageous sounding as the actual town of Intercourse PA but who knew there was a Climax NC? Fifteen miles south of Greensboro? I needed a starting point for an afternoon’s bike ride. Climax NC is only ten or twelve miles from Liberty NC, so this made for a nice rural thirty mile…
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