Category: Eastern North Carolina trips
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Day trip to Erwin and Dunn, North Carolina; November 8, 2025
I have a weakness for all-female rock and roll bands. During the 1980’s the Go Go’s were certainly the best of the lot but I also listened to the Bangles. (Walk Like an Egyptian!) Tootie and I saw the Bangles once, at the outdoor Audubon Zoo venue in New Orleans about 1988. They broke up…
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Cycling to Wilmington NC, from nearby Wrightsville Beach NC; September 2025
Tootie rented a classic beach house in Wrightsville Beach NC for two weeks and invited friends and family. The star of the show was my grandson Frankie, now nearly nine months old. We were also all smitten by the house. Built in 1923 they do not make them like this anymore. While the plumbing has…
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Noodling around Mount Olive, December 9, 2023
It was a beautiful day, sunny with highs in the low sixties. The next day was predicted to be a hard rain. Why not get out of town? I set out to bicycle the area around Mount Olive NC. I drove ninety miles down I-40 from my home in Chapel Hill NC, in the direction…
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Tobacco towns: Wilson NC to Rocky Mount NC, and back, December 3, 2023
Where to go on an overcast Sunday morning? I have cycled the Rocky Mount / Wilson area many times but I keep coming back. The two cities are twenty-two miles apart, each about fifty to sixty miles east of Raleigh, about eighty miles from my home in Chapel Hill. Their location is in an area…
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