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Christmas season in Fayetteville NC; December 17, 2024
Fayetteville, North Carolina? A lovely clear warm winter day was predicted with highs in the upper sixties. I wanted to take a day trip; to drive to an interesting place and then bicycle around. Tootie and I have two cars, more than we generally need; a 2021 Ford Escape Hybrid and a 2004 Honda Accord…
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Tale of two cities; Goldsboro NC to Kinston NC; Nov 30-Dec 1, 2024
Several of my New Orleans coterie of friends think of “North Carolina” as an exclusively mountain destination. Geography students: the western third of North Carolina is indeed mountains. The middle third of the state is the Piedmont; rolling hilly countryside that includes most of North Carolina’s major cities. The final eastern third of the state,…
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Not bicycling to Susan Cowswill, November 22, 2024
In my previous post I had bemoaned over-enthusiasm towards the most famous musical talents while not appreciating the lesser known. Susan Cowsill? Taylor Swift she is not. The youngest member of the 1960’s family band The Cowsills, she has been a performer for nearly sixty years. She has played with her five older brothers, alone,…
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Taylor Swift by bicycle; October 25-27, 2024
Tootie’s sister Kathryn has a friend Suzanne. They met in college over forty years ago and remain close, even though the whole time Kathryn has lived in Winston-Salem NC, five hour’s drive from Suzanne in Virginia Beach VA. Very coincidentally Suzanne, growing up in Virginia Beach, had been friends with MY sister Jane, but only…
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