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Biking Eastern North Carolina flatlands, Tarboro to Williamston NC and back, November 9-10, 2021
This trip would be a one nighter. I drove our Ford Escape Hybrid an hour and a half east of Chapel Hill. Tarboro is one of the prettiest small towns in North Carolina. I drove around Tarboro looking for a safe neighborhood where I could park. There were no “No Parking” signs anywhere, no signs…
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One morning cycling through New Orleans, October 27, 2021
Tootie and I drove down to our New Orleans second home on about October first and we stayed the whole month. It has been wonderful walking around every morning in our Lower Garden District neighborhood, all these amazing buildings within a hundred yards of our front door. To me it is paradise. We rarely used…
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Biking one week through an obscure part of the Northeast, September 18-25, 2021
A weeklong bicycle tour through the middle of nowhere in Upstate NewYork and Pennsylvania? Why not!!! The focus of this tour was the sixty-two mile long north / south Pine Creek Rail Trail in north central Pennsylvania. On the map below it is the line between Wellsboro PA and Jersey Shore PA. My friend Lyman…
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Biking for barbecue, Thomasville to Lexington NC; September 9, 2021
Barbecue is delicious but so are healthier alternatives. Before leaving home I had a breakfast of avocado toast, Weaver Street Market french bread drizzled with olive oil, then spread with ripe avocado, sea salt, a few drops of sriracha hot sauce, and a sprinkling of diced arugula. A very non-barbecue breakfast! It was so succulent…