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Down East North Carolina, Faison/Warsaw/Clinton Dec. 26,2019
About thirty years ago I had an air freight client on the outskirts of Clinton NC; a manufacturer of high-end glass panels. I used to drive down there for sales calls. The factory might still be there although companies now change names every few years as they get bought and sold. I recently realized…
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Discovering architecture in Cincinnati and southern Indiana, Nov. 5-11, 2019
High on my bucket list was to bicycle to Columbus, Indiana to see modern architecture. More on that later. Searching for a way to Columbus IN without taking the airplane, the Kentucky suburbs of Cincinnati OH are an eight hour five hundred mile drive from Chapel Hill NC, about my limit for a car ride.…
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Richmond VA from end to end, October 9, 2019
I set out to walk Richmond, Virginia from one end to the other. This was not a bike ride. If I do many more walks instead of bike rides I will have to start a new blog! Richmond VA has a genuine city feel and is close to home. This was an urban hike: …
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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.”…