Category: Pennsylvania trips
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Lancaster PA; September 15-16, 2012
This was another ride like General Lee; I wanted to invade the North. Even though I love The South, it is interesting to escape it into something approaching Yankee urbanism. I parked the car about noon on a Saturday morning in a Walmart parking lot just off I-83 in Shrewsbury PA, five miles…
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Red America: Cycling to Reading PA June 9-10, 2012
We always think of Red America as being rural, and probably Southern as well. But parts of central Pennsylvania feel very much part of that Red America vibe, but mostly in a good way. Flags are everywhere. (Maybe because it was very close to Flag Day!) Harley riders (helmetless) are also abundant. This bike trip…
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York / Harrisburg / Hershey PA, 6/11-12, 2011
General Lee and I have something in common; we both crossed the Mason-Dixon line in search of conquering the closest Yankee turf. Gettysburg and Antietam are actually both not very far from here. For here is the closest place to Virginia and North Carolina where you really feel you have left home, that the surroundings feel…
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Philadelphia and the Main Line 4/29-30, 2011
Started: Carrboro NC Saturday 4/29, 5:45 AM, drove to Richmond VA Arrived Richmond train station 8:20 AM, departed 8:35 AM train, arrived Philadelphia 1:10 PM Biked to Phoenixville PA Slept in Phoenixville PA, returned to Philadelphia next day. Return train Sunday 4/30 2:45 PM from Philadelphia to Richmond, then drove to Carrboro, arrived home 10:15 PM. 30th Street…
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