Category: Virginia trips
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Trump Country, April 29 – May 1, 2017
About two years ago I read the 2007 book Deer Hunting with Jesus by columnist Joe Bageant. Joe grew up poor white working class in Winchester, Virginia. His book is about rediscovering Winchester after living elsewhere. While Joe’s politics, at least on the economic front, are quite leftist, ten years ago he…
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Oceanfront Virginia Beach to Downtown Norfolk, and back (with slight assistance) March 17, 2017
Although she now lives in the Westminster Canterbury retirement complex on Shore Drive, my Mom Eleanor Marshall still owns the small oceanfront house at 83rd street in Virginia Beach. My sister Jane and her daughter Annie are currently living there. Despite the fact that I have not really lived in Virginia Beach for over…
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An hour or two in Norfolk; Dec. 28, 2016
I drove from Chapel Hill to see Mom and my sisters and nieces in Virginia Beach, and found time to park the car in downtown Norfolk, take out the bicycle and bike around Norfolk on a cold afternoon in late December. Biking around downtown, I could see that Norfolk is still recovering from being essentially torn…
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With Tootie on High Bridge Trail, Farmville VA, Dec 2, 2016
High Bridge Trail State Park is a thirty-one mile long east-west rail trail in rural Virginia. The trail crosses through the town of Farmville around its midpoint. I sold this as being “an hour had a half” straight north of Chapel Hill, but it is 120 miles and at least two and a half…
urban bicycle journeys 