Category: USA
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Mt. Pleasant, SC to Charleston, SC
Our push after yesterday’s crash left only 10 miles remaining to our three-night break in Charleston. Rett wasn’t exactly feeling great, and glad that we had done the 20 extra miles yesterday rather than today, but she’d at least be able to complete this final bit. The short ride (and 4pm check-in at our vacation…
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Georgetown, SC to Mt. Pleasant, SC
Yesterday afternoon our Motel 6 was literally the first thing on the ground after we crossed the Pee Dee River and entered Georgetown, and my dash back and forth across the highway to pick up Taco Bell for dinner certainly brought no further insight into the town. I also have no memories from 2010 likely…
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Myrtle Beach, SC to Georgetown, SC
“It can’t actually be this hot”, I said to myself as I stepped outside. “The only reason it feels this muggy is because we’ve spent three days inside an air-conditioned house and we’ve forgotten what normal air feels like”. But no, a couple miles of riding revealed that it actually is this hot! It was…
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Shallotte, NC to Myrtle Beach, SC
“Make hay while the sun shines” is an inherent part of my personality. It’s the part that led me to spend far below my means for a couple of sun-shining decades, with the accumulated hay allowing us to retire early and live this life. And it’s also why, in our 500 mile quest for Savannah,…
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Ogden, NC to Shallotte, NC
The broad Cape Fear River swoops in on Wilmington’s west side, while the ocean carves in from the east, pinching the land into a southward-pointing funnel. Normally such a funnel would be a traffic nightmare where no bicycles should ever go, but in the case of Wilmington’s funnel, the hole at the bottom is extremely…