At a library, and my time is limited. I will post some photos later, but some bullet points.
-Eating a lot and very well at churches
-Faced a lot of rain, wind, and cold today. Luckily, it was only 34 miles. Pretty suboptimal cycling conditions, though.
-Feels like its been longer than 4 days.
-You can read journal entries from EACH day of the trip here:
http://bikeandbuild.org/rider/route.php?route=NC2SD&year=2009
and click the pencil
-Time to eat...
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Next up: Greenville, NC
ReplyDelete-tenth largest city in NC. Big step up from the last two days, eh
-named one of the nation’s “100 Best Communities for Young People” by the America’s Promise Alliance. Lucky you
-named Sportstown USA by Sports Illustrated. Totally biker friendly then!
-named "BMX ProTown". Maybe you'll shower at one of the many BMX riders who live there
-home to ECU. Didn't UVA crush them at something recently?
-used to be called Greenesville, in honor of General Nathanael Greene, the American Revolutionary War hero. Later shortened because the difference of two letters is oh-so much
-before that even, it was Martinsborough because some guy named Martin felt like naming it after himself. Common trend
-Hurricane Floyd in 1999 caused the nearby Tar River to reach a 500-year flood level. That's a lot of Tar in the homes!
Last but not least, NERD STUFF! woo
-one of the major transmitter sites for Voice of America shortwave broadcasts. Basically they transmit shortwave broadcasts of non-military, US-gov stuff, and backup to Washington as the uplink to the Satellite Interconnect System. Have no idea what that is...
-Serves as alternative major uplink to the Atlantic Region Satellite , and primary return link of that satellite. Let's us talk to Cuba, Africa, and LA, because we know that those places are full of antennas
-And, all of this means that somewhere right outside of Greenville there is a ridiculous amount of dishes/antenna lying around. Used to be the largest international communications site in fact. TAKE PICTURES if you pass by (and can)
until tomorrow..
ps- chapel hill is not getting info done on it. call up the other dinosaur
HEEEEY Sharif! I'm super pumped for you! I am following your blog but does that mean it will email me when you post something new? I hope...
ReplyDeletethank you melissa, for your very thorough review of greensville.
ReplyDeletemargaux - i don't know how following works, but i know you love me so much that you'll obsessively check the blog everyday anyway.