Category: Virginia trips
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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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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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