Category: Coronavirus Diaries 2020
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Tour of the Eastern Shore during a pandemic; October 8 – 14, 2020
The Maryland / Delaware / Virginia Eastern Shore is also called the Delmarva Peninsula. I wanted to tour some of it by bicycle with my friend Lyman. Back in 1974-78 I went to college on the Eastern Shore: Washington College in Chestertown MD. Chestertown is a quaint eighteenth century town on the northern part of…
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False Cape State Park, with Tootie; September 24, 2020
Here is the bicycle ride Tootie and I took late one afternoon in September 2020. From the southern tip of the Sandbridge Beach neighborhood of Virginia Beach there is no public road for cars on the barrier island all the way to the North Carolina state line and then a few miles beyond that. When…
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Dilworth in Charlotte NC to South Carolina (and back); September 20, 2020
I parked the Prius on Pierce Street on the edge of the Dilworth neighborhood, about a mile south of downtown Charlotte NC. I had been a two to three hour drive from my home in Chapel Hill NC. I have had this idea about bicycling to Rock Hill SC since hearing years ago the…
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Looking for Richard Petty; Greensboro to Randleman NC, September 14, 2020
I parked the Prius at a Walmart on the southern fringe of Greensboro, just off the “new” I-85. It had been an hour’s drive from my home in Chapel Hill. This was to be a day trip, bicycling south towards Randleman NC, a town I had never visited. I had heard that area was…
urban bicycle journeys 