Category: Eastern North Carolina trips
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Sunday in Fayetteville, Nov.27, 2016
You can drive to Fayetteville NC from Chapel Hill in a little over an hour. It is the home of the large army base Fort Bragg and is a very different place than Chapel Hill. You can sense a different worldview. Following my urbanist tendencies, I headed downtown, looking for a place to park…
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Flashback: Tarboro NC in the year 2002
On a Saturday in 2002 I managed to get away for about twenty four hours total. The memories of my one night in Tarboro are still so vivid that I want to share this story. It would be eight or nine years before I started writing a blog about my bicycle adventures. I…
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Driveover Country: the Chapel Hill to Topsail Beach attempt, June 23-24, 2016
People smugly call places like Oklahoma flyover country. However, almost everybody I know in North Carolina drives to the beach and they hardly notice what I-40 passes through. Beyond the southeastern Raleigh suburbs no one seems to even stop for gas until they get to the coast. Tootie had rented a small house in…
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Jacksonville Skyline, March 5, 2016
Another version. (Can you imagine keeping everyone waiting while on national television?) Jacksonville, North Carolina, population 70,000 is the largest city in North Carolina that I had never visited. Its location is remote, Down East near the coast, but still not at an actual beach. It is a military town dominated by…
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