Category: Virginia trips
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Southern tip; Eastern Shore of Virginia, August 6, 2020
I was staying with Tootie at my family’s house in Virginia Beach and I drove the car less than an hour north to take a solo three or four hour bike ride on the Eastern Shore. This involved crossing seventeen mile Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, one of the longest in the world. The Eastern […]
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Blue Ridge Parkway; one night during a pandemic: July 2-3, 2020
Is there some way to take a safe overnight trip and not contribute to the pandemic problem? Also, it is too hot to bicycle most places close to home during early July. I even thought of driving up into Pennsylvania or Ohio to bicycle but temperatures there were also predicted to be in the […]
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The Coronavirus Diaries, Part Eighteen, Black Lives Matter in Richmond VA; June 14, 2020
I really like Richmond, which is a two and a half hour / 166 mile drive from my home in Chapel Hill. I can drive up there for the day. On this trip I wanted to see the condition of the Confederate statues on Monument Avenue. I drove off the freeway and looked […]
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The Coronavirus Diaries: Part Seventeen; Southside Virginia; June 7, 2020
About two weeks ago a friend emailed and asked if I could do my next bike ride to Chase City VA and document it. This was a first. How could I refuse? He is an old friend and has been an enthusiastic reader of my blog. He really wanted to read about Chase City. […]
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