Category: Eastern North Carolina trips
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Biking Eastern North Carolina flatlands, Tarboro to Williamston NC and back, November 9-10, 2021
This trip would be a one nighter. I drove our Ford Escape Hybrid an hour and a half east of Chapel Hill. Tarboro is one of the prettiest small towns in North Carolina. I drove around Tarboro looking for a safe neighborhood where I could park. There were no “No Parking” signs anywhere, no signs […]
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Rich Square NC and whereabouts, September 5, 2020
Where else to go during a pandemic? In our home town of Chapel Hill NC we have friend named Connie (married to a guy named Mark). Connie is originally from Rich Square NC (population 958). Connie and Mark’s daughter Hadley was our baby sitter back in the 1990’s. I think Hadley currently […]
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Down East North Carolina, Faison/Warsaw/Clinton Dec. 26,2019
About thirty years ago I had an air freight client on the outskirts of Clinton NC; a manufacturer of high-end glass panels. I used to drive down there for sales calls. The factory might still be there although companies now change names every few years as they get bought and sold. I recently realized […]
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Halifax and Franklin County NC, Feb. 7, 2019
Just to see something new, I put the bicycle in the car and drove the Toyota Prius about eighty miles from my home in Chapel Hill to Centerville NC. It is sixty miles northeast of Raleigh NC, or twelve miles northeast of Louisburg NC. The population of Centerville NC is listed as eighty-nine, but they […]
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