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Elizabeth City NC, Nov. 23, 2015
Growing up in Virginia Beach, less than sixty miles north of Elizabeth City, I saw it as something exotic, our closest foreign place, somewhere I often thought about but never visited. My friend Bill rode his bicycle down from Virginia Beach to Elizabeth City in about 1975, slept by himself in an abandoned house,…
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Down East: Snow Hill to Kinston; Nov. 12, 2015
Most people outside North Carolina do not realize what a huge area encompasses what we call Down East; flat, flat, flat, and stretching on for miles. There are a bunch of small towns, a lot of agriculture, and small cities like Rocky Mount, Wilson, Greenville, Goldsboro, and Kinston. While the Charlotte and Raleigh/Durham areas have…
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Bicycling La Rioja, Spain, October 17-24, 2015
I had never even heard of this region before this trip, except for the notation on wine bottles. I guess I assumed Rioja meant red wine. I learned that Rioja on a wine bottle means the wine comes from the Rioja region. And it is a glorious place. It is essentially…
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One day spin to Cary NC, Oct. 31, 2015
The United States is becoming a tribal culture. The Big Sort is rapidly underway, where were are all desperately moving to be around only those who think like we do. My friends, the children of my friends, and even my own children are all moving around the United States and abroad, searching for that perfect…
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