Tag: north-carolina
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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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A chilly ride from Siler City NC to Liberty NC, and back, January 13, 2025
I had a brief 9:00 AM doctor’s appointment fifteen miles away in Pittsboro NC. I drove down there from my home in Chapel Hill NC in our second car, an old 2004 Honda Accord. I wanted to use this opportunity to take a bike ride and the Bike Friday was folded in the trunk. It…
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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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