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Remote town with a future; Chase City VA, 1/6/2013
Because I am looking for urban spaces to discover by bicycle, I do make it my hobby to visit as just about every city and town within a hundred and fifty miles of Carrboro. I have not seen everything, for certain. I do not do a lot of background research on the places. …
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The South: Darlington-Cheraw SC, Dec. 1-2, 2012
The flat coastal plains of Darlington County stretched out ahead of me; cotton fields and trailers strewn across the landscape. Was this what Bruce Springsteen had in mind when he wrote the song “Darlington County”? This is an area northwest of Myrtle Beach, just over the North Carolina line from Laurenburg and Rockingham. Rural South…
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NOVA, rail trail across Northern Virginia; Nov. 17-18, 2012
The Washington and Old Dominion Trail runs from downtown Alexandria to way out past Leesburg. This runs through the heart of suburban sprawl; a delightful converted rail line, full paved, going through all the Northern Virginia suburbs that I have always heard about and (thankfully) never even really visited. Arlington. Falls Church. Vienna. Reston. …