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Motels in Myrtle Beach, Dec. 11-12. 2013
I escaped for one night midweek to Myrtle Beach. The winter wind whipped in the cold. Even after bicycling up and down the Grand Strand, it was becoming difficult to find a positive thing to say about the whole place. Almost all the restaurants are a quarter mile from the beach on US 17, …
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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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