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Suburbia: Five Points Raleigh to Wake Forest, and back: Sunday August 30, 2015
Wake Forest is a small town twenty miles northeast of Raleigh. Most of you already know that Wake Forest University is not in Wake Forest. The Reynolds tobacco people donated so much money to Wake Forest College that in 1956 they moved the college a hundred miles west to Winston-Salem. Since the move by…
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New England; six states in seven days, July 16-23, 2015
I wanted to go bicycling somewhere alone, where I could ponder life and think about Henry. Tootie was going out West the same week with friends. The weather in July is cooler up north. I planned a loop around New England lasting about a week. If I cut across the corners of several states,…
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Bike trips with Henry Marshall
It has been a painful time for our family. Writing about Henry seems to give me something to do. I choose here to stay on the purpose of this blog, and write only about the bicycle trips that I shared with Henry. Other aspects of Henry’s life, and other trips with Henry, can come…
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Baltimore, without the curfew, May 9-10, 2015
Everbody saw Baltimore all over the news in early May. Rioting, looting, and general mayhem seemed to be everywhere. Was Baltimore really in flames, or was this just a lot of media coverage about a serious problem, but only in a small part of the city? Since Baltimore is my favorite close…