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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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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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