Category: Western North Carolina trips
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Blue Ridge Parkway, Roaring Gap NC to Roanoke VA, July 16-19, 2023
I had been bicycling on the Blue Ridge Parkway for about two hours when I came upon a picnic area called Cumberland Knob. Just south of the North Carolina/Virginia state line a marker indicated the spot where construction of the Blue Ridge Parkway began September 11, 1935. The Cumberland Knob picnic area was built only…
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Blue Ridge Parkway; a different take; July 7 – 9, 2020
Like everything else in the pandemic, this trip was put together at the last minute. My frequent riding partner Lyman lives in Austin TX. We wanted to get together to bicycle on the Blue Ridge Parkway. A friend of his suddenly had a family emergency in Hendersonville NC and the friend decided to drive the…
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Little Switzerland NC, August 28-29, 2018
Chapel Hill is not exactly sea level but it is near enough to sea level that the heat of the summer is oppressive. There is a reason the wealthy used to spend months “summering” in The Mountains. (Some still do!). Elevation cures the illness of hot weather. Because we could not really go…
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Asheville NC, January 20, 2017
My son Sam is in a band that was performing at a restaurant near Asheville on Friday night. I drove the almost four hours out there early Friday morning, so I could spend most of the day bicycling around Asheville before going to see the show that evening. There are very few flat areas of…
urban bicycle journeys 