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Petersburg VA and south, a day trip: November 17, 202
I drove a little over two hours north from my home in Chapel Hill NC. Car driving on I-85 through Virginia can look very different from North Carolina. In North Carolina from the freeway one usually sees constant development and billboards. Across the state line going north on I-85 for the sixty miles south of…
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Tour of Winston-Salem, November 5, 2020
It was two days after Election Day and the Presidential race had still not been decided. Totally unrelated to politics I decided to drive over to Winston-Salem and just cycle around. Why not just start bicycling and see what I see? Winston-Salem is is my wife Tootie’s hometown and I have been coming here for…
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Tour of the Eastern Shore during a pandemic; October 8 – 14, 2020
The Maryland / Delaware / Virginia Eastern Shore is also called the Delmarva Peninsula. I wanted to tour some of it by bicycle with my friend Lyman. Back in 1974-78 I went to college on the Eastern Shore: Washington College in Chestertown MD. Chestertown is a quaint eighteenth century town on the northern part of…
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False Cape State Park, with Tootie; September 24, 2020
Here is the bicycle ride Tootie and I took late one afternoon in September 2020. From the southern tip of the Sandbridge Beach neighborhood of Virginia Beach there is no public road for cars on the barrier island all the way to the North Carolina state line and then a few miles beyond that. When…
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