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Cycling the Mason-Dixon Line, October 3-4, 2019
Starting in the northern tip of Virginia near Winchester VA there is a stretch of the Shenandoah / Cumberland valley where you can pass through four states (Virginia / West Virginia / Maryland / Pennsylvania) in a forty mile stretch. In modern terminology this would be described as part of “the I-81 corridor.”…
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The Chapel Hill / Raleigh / Durham Amtrak loop, 1.1, September 25, 2019
Yes, I have done this bike ride before. Bike thirty-five miles from Chapel Hill to Raleigh, take the 3:00 PM half hour $ 9.00 Amtrak from Raleigh to Durham, then bike fifteen miles home to Chapel Hill. What’s not to like? I had parked the Bike Friday on my seventh floor stair landing while…
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South Southwest Virginia, September 13-15, 2019
I had always wanted to bicycle to Martinsville VA, just to see what was there. I do know that it is a fading textile and furniture manufacturing town. Greensboro as a starting point put me sixty miles closer to my destination. With the Bike Friday in the back I drove a little…
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The Clayton Loop, September 9, 2019
This is a fascinating forty-nine mile loop. Bike one direction from central Raleigh to Clayton along the Walnut Creek / Neuse River bicycle path. Drink a coffee in downtown Clayton then bicycle back to Raleigh along Old US 70. There is a lot of new and old North Carolina spread along this route.…
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