Category: Virginia trips
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Shenandoah Valley: Lexington to Staunton (and back) 9/21-22/2013
The Blue Ridge Parkway was practically empty on this Saturday; have Americans stopped going outside anymore? I had driven up to Virginia from Carrboro, before cycling along the Parkway. I then descending into the Shenandoah Valley and Lexington. This cycling trip of about 36 hours was up and back between the towns of Lexington and…
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Remote town with a future; Chase City VA, 1/6/2013
Because I am looking for urban spaces to discover by bicycle, I do make it my hobby to visit as just about every city and town within a hundred and fifty miles of Carrboro. I have not seen everything, for certain. I do not do a lot of background research on the places. …
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NOVA, rail trail across Northern Virginia; Nov. 17-18, 2012
The Washington and Old Dominion Trail runs from downtown Alexandria to way out past Leesburg. This runs through the heart of suburban sprawl; a delightful converted rail line, full paved, going through all the Northern Virginia suburbs that I have always heard about and (thankfully) never even really visited. Arlington. Falls Church. Vienna. Reston. …
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Lynchburg: low cost urbanism, June 17, 2012
There are not many negative aspects to living in Carrboro, but one is that it lacks beautiful historic buildings. We crow about our mill houses, but, please. I have always wanted to live in an urban historic neighborhood, in a tightly spaced bunch of old houses, within walking distance to a downtown. This kind of…
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