Category: Virginia trips
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Tour of Sussex County, Virginia; February 4, 2021
Sussex County Virginia has not grown much over the years. Its population in the year 1790 was 11,000; population 2021: 11,000. It is near enough to my home in Chapel Hill NC for a day trip. I drove up two and a half hours and 145 miles up I-85. The Sussex courthouse and other municipal […]
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4 hours in and around Roanoke VA, December 13, 2020
It was going to be a beautiful day for December, sunny and highs in the low sixties, both at home in Chapel Hill NC and 130 miles northwest in Roanoke VA. The weather would not be this pleasant again for months. Where to go? Why not Roanoke VA? At a little over two and a […]
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Petersburg VA and south, a day trip: November 17, 202
I drove a little over two hours north from my home in Chapel Hill NC. Car driving on I-85 through Virginia can look very different from North Carolina. In North Carolina from the freeway one usually sees constant development and billboards. Across the state line going north on I-85 for the sixty miles south of […]
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False Cape State Park, with Tootie; September 24, 2020
Here is the bicycle ride Tootie and I took late one afternoon in September 2020. From the southern tip of the Sandbridge Beach neighborhood of Virginia Beach there is no public road for cars on the barrier island all the way to the North Carolina state line and then a few miles beyond that. When […]
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