Tag: bike
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Cycling to Wilmington NC, from nearby Wrightsville Beach NC; September 2025
Tootie rented a classic beach house in Wrightsville Beach NC for two weeks and invited friends and family. The star of the show was my grandson Frankie, now nearly nine months old. We were also all smitten by the house. Built in 1923 they do not make them like this anymore. While the plumbing has…
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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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Escaping the heat: Fourteen hours in York PA; June 17-18, 2025
Hot weather was coming. Over the years I have used York PA as an escape valve for a nice bike ride, even though the weather there is often just as hot as my hometown of Chapel Hill NC. On this particular June day York PA did indeed look to be cooler, with predicted overcast skies…
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Pittsburgh to Johnstown PA; June 2 – 4, 2025
I wanted to bicycle a random sliver of western Pennsylvania and chose Pittsburgh to Johnstown PA. The plane landed PIT airport at 9:45 AM on a Monday morning after a one hour nonstop flight from Raleigh/Durham. I had checked my Bike Friday folded into its suitcase. Tootie and I have found ourselves with a preponderance…