Category: Western North Carolina trips
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More of The Mountains: Blue Ridge Parkway and Boone; July 31-Aug 1, 2016
Tootie needed to go to Roaring Gap for a day, so I had her drop me off near there on the Blue Ridge Parkway. This is in northwestern North Carolina, about twenty miles south of Galax, Virginia. My plan was to bicycle down the Parkway to Boone, spend the night, then come back…
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Hickory / Lenoir / Morganton NC, April 21-22, 2016
This region was until recently a world center of furniture manufacturing. A lot of factories were built here to take advantage of abundant water power. With my bike in the trunk, I had driven the Honda out here the day before so I could play golf with my son Sam who lives in nearby…
urban bicycle journeys 