Category: Eastern North Carolina trips
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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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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…
