Category: Eastern North Carolina trips
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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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Wilson to Rocky Mount NC, and back, Nov. 3, 2018
Wilson and Rocky Mount NC are similar cities twenty miles apart. Rocky Mount initially was based on textile manufacturing and Wilson on raw and bulk tobacco. I parked the Prius in a Walmart parking lot two or three miles from downtown Wilson. I bicycled through the more prosperous and woody residential neighborhoods on…
urban bicycle journeys 