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Northern Florida Coast, Feb. 8-12, 2017
Most people I know would love to ride Amtrak but there are only a few destinations from the Raleigh/Durham area where Amtrak service makes sense. One is Jacksonville, Florida, if you had some reason to go there. The train leaves Cary NC (ten miles west of Raleigh) at 9:25 PM and if you…
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Siler City to Chapel Hill, January 31, 2017
The wind was blowing hard and predicted to be from the southwest, with gusts up to thirty miles an hour. Tootie suggested she drive me and my bicycle thirty-five miles southwest of Chapel Hill so that I could bike with the wind. I got out of the car in the parking of lot…
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Greenways in Raleigh, January 27, 2016
I applaud their existence but I usually only bike on greenways when I have to. There is so much more to look at when biking on neighborhood streets! Still, Raleigh has built in just the last few years a top-notch 112 mile system called the Capital Area Greenway. I biked around a lot of those…
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Asheville NC, January 20, 2017
My son Sam is in a band that was performing at a restaurant near Asheville on Friday night. I drove the almost four hours out there early Friday morning, so I could spend most of the day bicycling around Asheville before going to see the show that evening. There are very few flat areas of…