I'm gojng to try my best to look you guys up soon!
So yesterday house sitter came around early and I met SteveJ and we went up to GA for lunch at the shack by the track. SteveJ plotted my course out west coast (and even new dirt short cuts in Utah and we're in FL) and colorado last year and helped me with Maine this year. I appreciate it too. After a huge lunch he went back south and I went North.
DAMN this Shack by the Track place is good. And of course real hickory. not mesquite like out west, or OAK and PALM tree like FL................ just real Hickory smoke. Pic of SteveJ:
I was there too
I went through GA it was 110 degrees. Everyone thats been through the badlands of OK or the desert of AZ realizes mesh is no good (gloves or jacket). Its like riding through a blow torch at speed. Leather or textile is a must. I was skeptical of the RS Taichi jacket when I left Tampa, but was thanking God I had it when I got in that heat. Kept the heat blast off perfectly while letting a draft flow through. I'm now sold on the brand. Today wasn't as bad as yesterday since I made it to the mountains. I did too many places in NC/TN to list. Was in the saddle 13 hours of all back country mtn roads: Gap/ Cheroholla/LOCALS ROADS/Asheville/Boone/Blowing Rock/ The mad HWY 181 (and more locals roads) and tonight I'm in Hickory before meeting a lady tomorrow for breakfast. Again the jacket rocks, and it got special attention!
Sweet rest area on the blue ridge parkway (on a rare part of the parkway plenty of places to pass we ride), of all the times I've been past it I never stopped and looked at it
Stopped on a backroad and took a "break" by a zombie building. Would it have been wrong to steal these old horseshoes?
"StudioS"! This photography studio is different than the ones in Tampa I shoot in. I appreciate boudoir customers walking on pavement in their heels instead of the dirt this guy has for an extrance but hey if he makes it work thats great.
We were railing the bikes outside of Boone and before we could think about pulling over to don rain gear we were in a hailstorm from hell. Sounded like machine gun fire hitting my helmet. The jacket got it first soaking =)
Tomorrow I'm doing the 421 SNAKE and then some extreme sweet twisties of WV. And that state is the best kept secret ever. I'm still amazed it hasn't been infiltrated by squids, tourist riders, and hardly-ablesons
Then Tuesday gonna blister some pavement and get to the Catskills to watch nephews play a baseball tournament