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Two tourist attractions on a Sunday afteroon 12/01/2013
Laurinburg-Maxton airport and South of the Border If you drive south about two hours south of Chapel Hill, these two fascinating places are twenty three miles apart. It makes for a pleasant daylong roundtrip by bicycle, if you park at the Laurinburg-Maxton airport. Lots of people visit South of the Border, although very few by…
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Southern South Carolina, November 9-10, 2013
Gazing at the map south of Chapel Hill, Aiken, South Carolina seemed as good a place as any for a one night bike trip. I knew nothing about it, other than one of our vendors from work, the multinational UPS, had chosen this place to centralize their customs brokerage operation. Since this is a…
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Reidsville NC Moderism, November 17, 2013
The countryside between Reidsville NC and Danville VA makes for a pleasant Sunday bike ride. Reidsville is a struggling factory town, best known for cigarette, textile, and furniture factories. Since there has apparently been little new construction downtown and near downtown in the past fifty years, there are all sorts of modernist commercial…
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New Mexico, October 19-23, 2013
New Mexico is a fascinating place. The Native Americans have been living here for thousands of years, and Hispanics have been living here at least since about the year 1600. Henry and I flew out to Albuquerque in late October, and Lyman joined us from Austin TX. The weather was generally stunning; low…
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