Category: Coronavirus Diaries 2020
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The Coronavirus Diaries, Part Ten: Cary NC and the burbs, April 17, 2020
This was another bike ride where I touched nothing and neither talked to or allowed myself to be near anyone. Although I could have started biking directly from my apartment I chose to drive the first few miles and then leave the car at a mall parking lot. You may remember that a week…
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The Coronavirus Diaries, Part Nine: Greensboro NC-South Side/East Side; April 12, 2020
While Chapel Hill is considered part of the Triangle of Chapel Hill / Durham / Raleigh; Greensboro, population about 300,000 and the third largest city in North Carolina is not that far away to the west, especially from Chapel Hill. It is forty-six miles from my Chapel Hill condo to downtown Greensboro and there…
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The Coronavirus Diaries; Part Eight; Bicentennial Trail to High Point; April 9, 2020
I wanted to bicycle (for once) on a road or trail that I had never cycled on before but was also near where I live. This is the eighth part in a series of bicycle rides that are done alone without touching anything, not going to a store, not talking to or getting near anyone.…
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The Coronavirus Diaries, part seven: with Tootie on the Neuse River Trail; April 5, 2020
Of course I had never read, or even previously heard of, Albert Camus’ 1947 novel “The Plague.” The book has now been mentioned several times in recent publications. It describes a French town during a plague. A New Yorker reader named Kyra Morris pointed out one scene where two principal characters of the…
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