Category: Eastern North Carolina trips
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Down East: Rocky Mount, Tarboro, and Wilson NC 3/22-23/2014
If I had bothered to tell anyone where I was going for two days, the mostly likely response from friends in Chapel Hill would have been: “Why would you want to go THERE?” But the weather was beautiful and the terrain was flat. I drove the hour and a half to Rocky Mount on a…
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Two tourist attractions on a Sunday afteroon 12/01/2013
Laurinburg-Maxton airport and South of the Border If you drive south about two hours south of Chapel Hill, these two fascinating places are twenty three miles apart. It makes for a pleasant daylong roundtrip by bicycle, if you park at the Laurinburg-Maxton airport. Lots of people visit South of the Border, although very few by…
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Goldsboro to Mount Olive NC, Jan 27, 2013
While there are a few nice parts of town, most of Goldsboro looks terrible. When we think of suburban sprawl, we usually think of larger cities. In Goldsboro, everything seems to have moved out to a huge Walmart on the highway. The downtowns of cities larger than Goldsboro have rejuvenated themselves in recent years. …
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