Category: Eastern North Carolina trips
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Kinston to New Bern NC, and back, Nov. 11-12, 2017
My wife Tootie’s sister Kathryn had been given a gift certificate to the restaurant Chef and the Farmer, one hundred twenty miles east of Chapel Hill, in Kinston. The three of us drove over there, ate a grand meal at the restaurant, and stayed one night at the Mother Earth Motor Lodge. We enjoyed it…
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Way Down East NC, April 1-2, 2017
Northeastern North Carolina, inland from the beach was the first part of North Carolina settled by Europeans. It is also the poorest, most rural, and most heavily African American part of the state. I had the bicycle in the trunk as I parked the car at about noon on a Saturday in the town…
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Greenville and Farmville NC, Dec. 7, 2016
I drove the Honda towards Down East, into that vast coastal plain of eastern North Carolina. Pretty much at random I parked the car at a CVS just outside of Farmville. Yes, just last week I was in Farmville, Virginia (population 8,500), and for some reason this week I ended up in Farmville, North…
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