Post trip report:
Because of rain deluge in Ottawa and NY state on Sept. 12th and 13th, I delayed my departure to Mon. Sept. 14th. In hindsight, this was a great decision, as I then had 9 days of mostly sunshine and only a couple of hours rain in WV. Warm days, cool evenings. No hurricanes.
The most exciting part was Holloway Road down from the Parkway to Banner Elk. Turns out this road is gravel and neither I nor the Concours is great on gravel, but we survived.
Camped every night, trying out the new tent, Ledge Tarantula. Roomy, external storage areas under the fly, good ventilation.
Chewed my rear tire past the wear bars at about 20,000 km, and will get another Michelin Commander II to replace it (if I can, everybody seems to be out of stock). Bike ran great, no tickets, didn't see too many Concourses, lots of Harleys.
The only bike episode was the lovely 55W bi-xenon HID headlight died. I noticed this when going through one of the unlit BRP tunnels, you don't see much from only the running lights. The HID light is terrifically bright when working, but there's no other filament to fall back on. Replaced it with the spare halogen, and I think that's the end of the HID experiment for me.
About 2600 mi, 42.7 mi/USgal.