Let's stay off of I40 and the other 6 lane roads more than we did last time. We do enough of that on the way up to the mountains. On the way back we took some mountain road shortcuts that Toymaker knew about, the trip back seemed quicker and was much more interesting.
(hee hee .... maybe we should vote on it? No overheated engines, no splats, better scenery?)
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Kel30734 just told me something interesting anyway -- the Irish are coming and I surely have you outnumbered.
I will likely confuse you sometimes but I am everywhere -- on this trip anyway. I may be riding in back of you and riding in front of you and actually sit on both sides of you at lunch. When you go splat I can bind your wounds and fix up your bike all at the same time.
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Let's go here !!! Bestest piece of curvy off-camber roller coaster on the planet that I have ever found. I vouch for it personally!! It has my 4x6" personal seal of approval on it (although it has likely dried up by now).
Instructions: Zoom out some until you can see the Parkway, click your mouse on the intersection of US276 and the Blue Ridge Parkway and then zoom back in with the slider so you can see the torturous curves clearly.
Best road in the world is the 2-3 miles on US 276 going up to and down from the Parkway crest. Vertical viewing doesn't give the road picture of the road falling off on you as you go around the curves though. You are leaned over to the max going around a turn and the road just rolls over to the outside and freaking *** disappears *** half way through the turn !!! Auuugh !! (ass puckering scary on a bike -- truly)
http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=Cruso&state=NC#a/maps/l:::Cruso:NC::US:35.4...