Tag: travel
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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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Cycling home from Pittsboro NC at thirty degrees; January 2, 2025
It was cold outside. Tootie had a dermatologist’s appointment in Pittsboro NC at 9:15 AM on a Thursday. Why not get a lift from her and bike back to Chapel Hill? With the Bike Friday in the back of our Ford Escape Hybrid we drove the sixteen miles down to Pittsboro. It was Tootie’s appointment…
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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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