GREAT NEWS,

I just reserved  TWO cabins at http://www.flintlockcampground.com/ for Wensday night the 4th.

Each cabin sleeps 4  (one Queen and one set of bunks) sorry OF you have allready spoke for a bottom bunk and I'm claming the Queen.

Bath house and showers near by;

Gentlemen START YOUR ENGINES !!!

We still have room for at least two more !!! Also could get a third cabin:

Remember parkway speed limit.    (that means EveryBody can come)

Its a done deal !   start wensday morning http://www.blueridgemotorcyclecamp.com/# ,  wensday night http://www.flintlockcampground.com/  I feel a releif having the ends tied off.  

corection ends Friday morning at the BlueRidge Camp site.

I should have done this last week but I just told my wife and the Sheriffs  Dept is sending her out of town to school Aug 4th, 5th and 6th. We have 3 dogs and 20 some fish I'm gonna have to stay home and take care of. At the very best I can probably hook up with you guys on the Parkway one day and ride but I cant stay overnight. This sux. She is retiring next year and I will be glad!

Oldfeller said:
My wife has stated her price for this new trip -- next Wednesday I take her to the coast to see the new Aquarium (wherever the flip that is ....)

If you are talking about the one south of Wilmington NC, we just got back from there. It was not that great after seeing the one in Gatlinburg TN. Unless she just wants to go to the beach, you may make her more happy with a trip to the mtns. Me, yamakid, his sister & Mom all agree the aquarium in Gatlinburg is many times bigger and better.

Bigzuk

The meeting spot.

Jump directly off I-40 on to 23 south to Waynesville, then 276 south to Cruso.   Can't get no easier .....





OK, looks very very good on the meeting place -- I actually know this one as it is just down the street from the Cruso general store where I bought my little tube of Neosporin about 4 years ago.  We took the year before lasts Dragon group down that same curvy little piece of ex-logging road as warm up for the Dragon and yep, it is a right fun little piece of pavement to be sure.  

I certified it forever as "a noticeably good rural riding road" with about six square inches of my skin as a matter of fact .....  

It's that good -- the Flying Purple People Eater is all a quiverin' fer a rematch, she's been a wait'n fer it for 4 years now ever since she got her nickname fer flying a wee bit all sideways down the outside gravel shoulder (no guard rail) at the very teetery edge of the mountain drop off on that particular piece of road.  It wuz a long long way down,  lemme tell ya ....

Both she and I both carry little visible reminders of her last visit to Highway 276 ....  


         <shudder>


Meeting place has a ramp spot to empty the two bikes off the back of a truck, which is what we needed most for a getting off spot.   Since it is just me and Lancer, we can leave a bit earlier in the morning and get there cleanly a bit before noon.

Ok, you will be traveling approximately 1,000 total miles in the truck getting about 18 open road mpg or roughly 55 gallons of gas for the trip total.  

Since it was my neat idea (and my bud Bill has done quit on us taking his gas share with him) I'll kick in the first $100 for gas leaving you the remainder to pay out of pocket when you fill back up again when you get home -- that plus the wear and tear on the vehicle will make up a fair share for you to plan your budget for.

Other than food, the rooms will cost about $25 a night so the out of pocket $$$ should be fairly reasonable.


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We need to buffer the kickstands pretty good where they rest on the bed of the truck -- I've got some plywood and rags we can use for padding.   The bikes will try to move around a good bit on the mountain roads and the kickstands will scuff up your bed if we don't stop them from doing so.   Bring all the tie down stuff you have, we will need it.


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Here's what's funny -- you would think the economics of gasoline would totally favor riding the bikes, right?  I mean a bike's 45 mpg vs 18 mpg for the truck is kinda skewed, right?

Remember, the truck is carrying two bikes back in the bed -- and their 45mpg divided by 2 isn't all that different from 18 mpg, not different enough to justify our two aching backs and stiff legs from riding for 6+ hours one way.

The truck is still worth it, believe me.  

If we still had the 3 bikes we would have actually come out slightly to the good on it mileage-wise.

I'd like to stay in a bed on Thursday night so go ahead and get Lancer and me a two (2) bed cabin.    

Getting up with these folks is fun (they use a remote message service) -- I got a message into them but have gotten no response back so far.   If you get through to actually speak to them make sure they have a two bed cabin reserved for Thursday August 5th for John K. Alexander.

I'll keep plugging away at them until I get through.    If they'll let you, you could put an air mattress on the floor and share the cool in the cabin with us (unless you get someone else getting another cabin that is).  

Ain't no AC in these particular cabins I don't think .....

Dammit, I wish I could go....    

Ok, I got a Thursday night cabin for two.

There is no AC in any of the cabins but one of the two bed cabins has a ceiling fan installed in the roof to suck air thru the cabin to promote a more rapid cool down in the evening.  

We got that one,  Cabin #12.   Once the sun goes down we get whatever the outside ambient temperature is as it cools down into the night.

Right now predicted night temps up there around Canton range in the high 60's & low 70s which with some air movement would be good enough to sleep in for one night, even for lazy old fat dudes like me.


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Ladies, this trip was built jest for you ....  special

The location, the ride path -- the whole shooting works

Built "extra special" for the casual trip rider

I will be riding my Parkway casual cruiser road trip bike, not my tweeked Savage.

MMRanch will be leading, riding all sane and careful like

You wish you could go ??

why don't you?

Jest do it !!