Category: Virginia trips
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C.H. to Richmond, day four, Petersburg to Richmond
US-301 extends from the bridge leaving from downtown Petersburg into Colonial Heights, and then twenty-three miles to central Richmond. It is one of the ugliest stretches of road in America, rivaling even Chef Menteur Highway in New Orleans. It is congested with various levels of strip malls, stretching from middle class in Colonial Heights…
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Lynchburg VA, March 23, 2016
Driving in from the south, you enter Lynchburg in a flurry of strip malls filled with all the major stores. Target. Walmart. Sam’s Club. Border’s Books. Dick’s Sporting Goods. Old Navy, and many many more. Just as I was turning the car left, I saw this guy. Welcome to America. I have been here several…
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Northern Neck of Virginia, Dec. 9-10, 2015
Almost as soon as I got here, I started to ask myself “Why I am doing this?” I guess I have not gotten over that overwhelming compulsion to tour an area that I have never been to, and then write about it. It is getting harder and harder to find new areas to visit. …
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Virginia: Orange, Gordonsville, and Charlottesville, Dec. 14-15, 2014
“A Gordonsville chicken has six legs” That is the kind of annoying crazy statement one hears from one’s parents as a teenager. It is now memorable, and has long stuck in my mind. It actually inspired me to take a bike ride around the small town of Gordonsville, on two unseasonably warm and bright December…
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