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Yanceyville NC, Milton NC, and Danville VA all in one day August 23, 2020
I drove the Prius forty miles from our condo in Chapel Hill and parked it at a feed and hardware store just outside of Yanceyville NC. Everything was closed on a Sunday morning at 8:30 AM. Nobody would care if I park here for a few hours, right? I pulled the Bike Friday…
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Southern tip; Eastern Shore of Virginia, August 6, 2020
I was staying with Tootie at my family’s house in Virginia Beach and I drove the car less than an hour north to take a solo three or four hour bike ride on the Eastern Shore. This involved crossing seventeen mile Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, one of the longest in the world. The Eastern…
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Southwestern New York State during a pandemic; July 22-26, 2020
I follow the weather obsessively on my I-phone. I had just bicycled in the mountains of North Carolina. Where else could I bicycle tour during a pandemic with cooler weather? It seemed just plain hot everywhere. How far north would I have to drive to find weather not so oppressive? What type of 2…
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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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