Tag: history
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Memphis TN, March 16-18, 2025
I like trains. My relationship with Amtrak is like that with a mythical demented relative. You love them, you nourish them, but it is exhausting and you sometimes silently wish it would all just end. There is a daily Amtrak called “The City of New Orleans” that runs New Orleans to Memphis to Chicago, taking…
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The complete Washington Avenue tour; March 19. 2025
What if I bicycled the entire length of Washington Avenue in New Orleans? The street is only four miles long but I suspect people think the idea is crazy. Parts are considered unsafe. It is a fascinating mostly two lane city street lined with live oaks as it passes through areas of huge cultural and…
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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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Danville VA, just looking around; September 22, 2024
I keep coming back to bicycle around Danville VA, only fifty-five miles straight north of my home in Chapel Hill NC. Danville’s city limits abut the North Carolina / Virginia line. Unlike the booming Research Triangle area of North Carolina, Danville has for many years been left behind. A hundred years ago Danville (current population…
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