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Florida central east coast, January 8 – 11, 2016
Florida is such a weird place. The cultural polyglot never ceases to amaze, especially from Orlando southward. One writer called Florida “California without the ideas”. For over a hundred years, people in America, and increasingly people from all over the world have picked up stakes and moved here, hoping for a fresh start. …
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Northern Neck of Virginia, Dec. 9-10, 2015
Almost as soon as I got here, I started to ask myself “Why I am doing this?” I guess I have not gotten over that overwhelming compulsion to tour an area that I have never been to, and then write about it. It is getting harder and harder to find new areas to visit. …
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Pilgrimage to Saxapahaw; a walking journey; Nov. 30, 2015
After posts of 95 bicycle rides, I am breaking The Rules (just once) by writing about a walk. If I do more walks, I guess I will have to start a different blog. It is sixteen miles from my apartment on Rosemary Street in Chapel Hill to Jackie & John Ripley’s apartment on the third…
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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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