urban bicycle journeys

Has anyone heard of Ellerbe NC?  It is in Richmond county, twenty-six miles west of Southern Pines. I had driven down to the Sandhills area on a Wednesday morning, looking for some other part of North Carolina to discover.   In the center of the triangle formed by Pinehurst, Southern Pines and Aberdeen sit the…

I had a dentist appointment on Monday morning at 8:00 AM; having a tooth crowned.   After almost three hours in the chair, and with a mouth still numb from anesthetic, I came home and made myself a smoothie, the one thing that does not require chewing.  I drank it while I finished packing.  Ten…

I did not take the most direct route north from Henderson,  because I really wanted to bicycle through Soul City.   First, I did see inner city Henderson. The restaurant George’s was indeed there, but everything else looked mostly commercially vacant.   Henderson was also a big textile manufacturing town.    Rather than just describing war…