1st trip - Dragon & Smokies

[kerrbon]

The wife and I just got back last night from the six day trip - WHAT A BLAST! - Total seat miles was 20 short of 2,000 - half was the commute from Northern Ohio covering two days.

Rode the Dragon several times (17 minutes was my best time on the big Harley), the Cherohala Skyway twice (NC side is much more scenic than the TN side - at 5,000+ ft, it gets cold up there when the rain began!), Blue Ridge Parkway, The Foothills, Rt 441, Rt 73, Rt 28, Rt 19, Rt 276 down to Brevard, Rt 107 (what a road that is) and on and on! SO MANY ROADS, SO LITTLE TIME!

A little rain each day so the rain suits got a full workout!

Meet lots of great people (thanks everyone!)


* Brad - gave us 5 minutes of Dragon/Gap history talk (thanks!), even
though he was for obvious reasons preoccupied with the maintanence
issue of the day (Monday)
* Tank - ran into him sitting outside room #3 and at the overlook
* Deals Gap staff - great people, very friendly
* 3 couples from S. Illinois
* 3 bikers from the Chicago area accompanied by a truck
* Microtel staff - very helpul to bikers-the towels & hose kept my bike clean
* and on and on

Thank you to everyone!

[Dragonslayer]

Glad you enjoyed the place. Very wise to bring the rain suit here. For a few months we had NO rain (very unusual), now we've got rain every day.

[david canale]

hey--me and another ohio buddy doing the dragon this year instead of sturgis. saw your recent posting. any further words of advice? Leaving on friday..... Dave

[Ben]

Ride your own ride, and stay in your own lane. If you can do that, then you will have a great time.

If there is anything we can do to assist, just ask.

Ben

[kerrbon]

hey--me and another ohio buddy doing the dragon this year instead of sturgis. saw your recent posting. any further words of advice? Leaving on friday..... Dave

Ride you own ride - enjoy all the roads the area has to offer. The roads I listed were fantastic. SO MANY ROADS, SO LITTLE TIME was my motto!

ENJOY -

I miss the roads already after only being back 3 days - The good news is that I will be back in late August during the National annual HOG gathering in Knoxville.

[kerrbon]

A few pics added to the first post / 08-13-07

[spiderweb]

The wife and I just got back last night from the six day trip - WHAT A BLAST! - Total seat miles was 20 short of 2,000 - half was the commute from Northern Ohio covering two days.

Its a Great ride is'nt it. The last time the wife and I were down there we took a very similar route that you did. I think we did about 2050 mile we must be very close. We live in southeast michigan.

We come to your area quite a bit for a helmet free ride across ohio's 20 then to the corn field roads over to Indiana then back to Mi. We make that our little Saturday ride we fondly call the tri state run.

Nice looking scoot you have there. I ride a 97 heritage the old girl has passed up 80,000 on the clock and has never had a lick of trouble. Hope you get the same with yours. Maybe some day we can get together and look up the old tankster and go for a ride I think he lives closer to mid or southern ohio. Any way great pics glad you enjoyed the ride.

[crs01]

nice pics and scoot...i've got the same color scheme on a 04 flhtci...i'll be ridin' in from texas (late september) and doin' the same roads

[kerrbon]

nice pics and scoot...i've got the same color scheme on a 04 flhtci...i'll be ridin' in from texas (late september) and doin' the same roads

Thanks - 04 FLSTCi - 25,000 miles and having a GREAT time riding it.

Attached are a few other pics