Left the Super8 in Gatlinburg after stopping at one of the thousand breakfast restaurants in town. Place with wagon wheels hanging from the ceiling. Decided to ride south over the hill to the Blue Ridge Parkway. We took the side road to the top of Clingmans Dome and hiked to the top where there is a tower you can climb and got a spectacular 360 degree view. It was early so the mountains looked "smoky" with the moisture in the air. We headed back down the other side and stopped in Ashville to get the Massey a new headlight. Found a huge dealership that had a Honda lamp or a Xenon lamp and went with the Xenon. Had to be careful not to get too close to the back of Dave's bike or it would melt the plastic on his back bumper. Also started a couple small grass fires along the side of the road. I found that if I put it on high beam there were less incidents of toasted squirrels. Good thing I got the new bulb because the tunnels on the Blue Ridge get really dark, especially when your eyes have adjusted to the bright light outside.
The Blue Ridge Parkway was nicer than we remembered from last year , the weather being so beautiful. Last year we had some rain and this year we did the lowest section which we skipped last year. Being the weekend there were lots of bikes, but not much traffic overall. Dave had me laughing so hard with a few jokes I almost ran off the road. These headsets are dangerous. The GPS got a rest since we pretty much stuck to the parkway. We decided to bury ourselves north of the parkway and landed in Spruce Pine, NC just south of Boone. Nice local motel with a friendly older woman behind the desk. Some of the locals ribbed us yankees a bit, but they were great guys. We think it was them that came in at 4:30 this morning from some all night work of some kind.The WiFi was not really worth messing with so we decided to hit a local Micky D's and update the blog over coffee. Another sunny beautiful day. The weather guy says we may hit something north of us, but so far not a drop of rain this trip.
The Blue Ridge Parkway was nicer than we remembered from last year , the weather being so beautiful. Last year we had some rain and this year we did the lowest section which we skipped last year. Being the weekend there were lots of bikes, but not much traffic overall. Dave had me laughing so hard with a few jokes I almost ran off the road. These headsets are dangerous. The GPS got a rest since we pretty much stuck to the parkway. We decided to bury ourselves north of the parkway and landed in Spruce Pine, NC just south of Boone. Nice local motel with a friendly older woman behind the desk. Some of the locals ribbed us yankees a bit, but they were great guys. We think it was them that came in at 4:30 this morning from some all night work of some kind.The WiFi was not really worth messing with so we decided to hit a local Micky D's and update the blog over coffee. Another sunny beautiful day. The weather guy says we may hit something north of us, but so far not a drop of rain this trip.
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