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Driveover Country: the Chapel Hill to Topsail Beach attempt, June 23-24, 2016
People smugly call places like Oklahoma flyover country. However, almost everybody I know in North Carolina drives to the beach and they hardly notice what I-40 passes through. Beyond the southeastern Raleigh suburbs no one seems to even stop for gas until they get to the coast. Tootie had rented a small house in…
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Daytime in Richmond VA, May 19, 2016
I cannot stop myself from coming back to Richmond. I find the place so interesting. For this trip, I drove up there for the day, parking in the distant suburb of Gayton, in Henrico County. I pulled the bike out of the trunk and headed towards downtown, maybe fifteen miles away. The more prosperous…
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Lunchtime in Mebane, May 16, 2016
For years, I have been predicting that Mebane would become the next Carrboro, the next Saxapahaw, the next former mill town to where creative types priced out of Chapel Hill can relocate. I rode out to Mebane to eat lunch, then ride back, a little over twenty miles each way from my home in Chapel…
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Hickory / Lenoir / Morganton NC, April 21-22, 2016
This region was until recently a world center of furniture manufacturing. A lot of factories were built here to take advantage of abundant water power. With my bike in the trunk, I had driven the Honda out here the day before so I could play golf with my son Sam who lives in nearby…
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