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Burlington NC, some modern architecture
This is a good route to ride on a Sunday, when there is not much traffic. Burlington has miles of empty textile factories; they have been here since the mid nineteenth century. Most closed down in just the past ten years. There are a few left operating still. On NC87 from Graham to…
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The Jersey Shore, October 15 – 18 2011
Sure, I know, Joey Buttafuoco is from Long Island, not the Jersey Shore. And I actually have never seen more than five minutes of the TV reality show Jersey Shore. I did like the movie My Cousin Vinnie. As a Southerner, this kind of style and lifestyle of the Northeast seems exotic to me. So I wanted to…
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3 1/2 days along the Erie Canal; Albany to Syracuse
A story broken down by category: THE BAR SCENE Little Falls NY is wedged between small mountains where the Erie Canal follows the gorge of the Mohawk River. The Happen Inn is a bar and restaurant located the basement of a corner building downtown, across the street from a clean and friendly Knights Inn,…
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Ninety minutes in New Orleans Treme and Mid-City 7/10/11
In almost any American city, one learns very quickly that there are places you do not go. There are streets you do not cross, neighborhoods you do not enter. When we lived in New Orleans in the eighties, we knew that when in the French Quarter, you did not cross Rampart Street. That was a…
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