Tag: adventure
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Myrtle Beach SC; November 22-24, 2025
I keep coming back to cycle through beach towns particularly because some, only some, have long street grids allowing cycling for miles and miles in a straight line through almost traffic-free residential areas. I had been to Myrtle Beach SC before and it is an acquired taste. Especially away from beachside residential areas and out…
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Day trip to Lynchburg VA; November 7, 2025
It’s only a two and a half hour drive in our Ford Escape Hybrid up from Chapel Hill NC to Lynchburg VA, population 79,000. Lynchburg claims its nickname is “Hill City” and on steep streets in older areas there is block after block of affordably priced nineteenth century houses. This one is $230,000.00 https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/1020-Harrison-St_Lynchburg_VA_24504_M57968-12378 The…
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Cycling up to Danville VA; August 12-13, 2025
Both Tootie and I use bicycles to accomplish much of our shopping and daily errands. Until recently we had two cars but her late mother’s 2004 Honda Accord with 197,000 miles was deteriorating, sometimes sitting unused for months at a time. Two weeks ago after I had to pay over three hundred dollars to fix…
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Cycling up to Meridian, Mississippi; April 24-25, 2021
Enterprise, Mississippi (population 496) is twenty-something miles south of the larger Meridian MS. Both towns are about halfway up the state, two hundred miles northeast of New Orleans. Thunderstorms were predicted as Lyman and I circled in my Ford Escape Hybrid with two bicycles in the back. We needed a place to park for twenty-four…
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