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Meandering through the New Orleans suburbs, March 1- 4, 2021
For my regular readers I have a couple of news items: Many of my blog posts feature the white 2005 Toyota Prius that I inherited from my late mother Eleanor. Thankfully just AFTER I recently finished driving the Prius 900 miles each way from North Carolina to New Orleans and back: the main battery failed.…
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Ramble around Gibsonville, February 16, 2021
Is there too much traffic on a week day for safe bicycling on rural roads anywhere near I-85 in central North Carolina? The hundred and sixty miles of I-85 between Raleigh and Charlotte is rapidly becoming one big city, an I-85 megalopolis. I parked our Prius in the U.S. Post office of Whitsett NC, less…
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Cycling a corner of Montgomery County, North Carolina, February 8, 2021
It is about seventy miles and an hour and a half drive from my home in Chapel Hill NC to Biscoe NC. I had guessed the area was likely to be free of car traffic. I had never been here before. Biscoe (population 1,700) and the surrounding Montgomery County (population 28,000) are in a remote…
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Tour of Sussex County, Virginia; February 4, 2021
Sussex County Virginia has not grown much over the years. Its population in the year 1790 was 11,000; population 2021: 11,000. It is near enough to my home in Chapel Hill NC for a day trip. I drove up two and a half hours and 145 miles up I-85. The Sussex courthouse and other municipal…
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