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Sunday morning; Sanford NC in the heat; July 19, 2020
There’s a pandemic and it is hot. What to do? Whatever bike riding one does, it has to be done early. I left home at 6:45 AM and drove the white Prius thirty-five miles from Chapel Hill NC to the northern edge of Sanford NC. I skipped breakfast and coffee. Sanford (population 28,000)…
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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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Blue Ridge Parkway; one night during a pandemic: July 2-3, 2020
Is there some way to take a safe overnight trip and not contribute to the pandemic problem? Also, it is too hot to bicycle most places close to home during early July. I even thought of driving up into Pennsylvania or Ohio to bicycle but temperatures there were also predicted to be in the…
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The Coronavirus Diaries, Part Eighteen, Black Lives Matter in Richmond VA; June 14, 2020
I really like Richmond, which is a two and a half hour / 166 mile drive from my home in Chapel Hill. I can drive up there for the day. On this trip I wanted to see the condition of the Confederate statues on Monument Avenue. I drove off the freeway and looked…
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