Sounds like we are planning to base out of MM's and just run around a bit.  That's fine with me, I'll bring some toys and bust some berm and enjoy myself.

I told my wife about the trip and she strung me along for 2-3 hours making "oh what a wonderful idea" noises until I said, "Well, I guess we will stop by the motorcycle shop to try you on a few helmets to get your head size right".   Reality immediately set in, hell no she wasn't getting on the back of my motorcycle -- had I taken leave of my senses?

For those who like to think about things in a linear fashion MM's is on the west end of our range, the Dragon and the Knife Store is kinda sorta in the middle-ish section and Blue Ridge is to the far east end of the range.

MM would think of the entire range as "a good day trip" and as long as he planned enough stops and breaks this would be good.

Dave and I did Blue Ridge to the Dragon and then to the Knife store then back to the Blue Ridge along that twisty little road and it was more than enough of a day full for me.

The Dragon is best ridden weekdays if you want less traffic.

For me the Dragon is nearest my home....so riding it toward the end of the trip gets me closer to home.  I would most likely be taking my bike to MM's in a trailer, and when we pick up and move I will probably load up for the move....I just don't have storage space on my bike.  I could haul peoples extra gear in my trailer during moves.....but I would not be going back to MM's on the return...so I could not haul extra gear back.

Dave

The endlessly mutable trip ......    

Old_rider, you need to be saying both dates and weekdays when you say all these Mondays and Tuesdays as the very last trip version post poll didn't have any of them in it at all ......

   

Not that I mind, mind you, just so I show up on the right date at MM's I am golden for pretty much whatever happens.   It isn't like we don't roll changes on the fly as pretty much the normal thing once we get off together on these trips .....   but once all us working boys spit on getting our vacation days we are locked in to them.

Ain't done that yet, of course, so we are still a "planning" away.

Well

how far is the jack Daniel's distillery?

Me and Jack live in the same town  !    The folks here are smart enough to make it , but not dum enough to drink it !  

Really  
you have to go to the next county (any-direction) to buy the stuff .

I'm set-up to handle outdoor cooking for a groop size of 20-30 eassy.   My back deck has a grill on it big enough for 26 hambugers at a time , and its tied to the 500 gallon fuel tank.  The fire pit has seating for about 10 before we start moving lawnchairs around and thats not counting the sitting rail around the goldfish pond (thats another 6-8) "not smart to sit there and cosume alcholic beverages"  Oh ;  and the pick-nick table is right there too it seats 8 adults.

We have a grocery store with-in 5 miles that cuts there own meat and sell ground 85% for Krogers price , last week the meat departments sale item was "full rack ribs for $2.18 lb"  ... so ... $3.50 a head would have gotten us :  
Salad
Baked Tater
1# of ribs each
Desert would have to Jello after eating all that !  

Just bring a cot and a sleeping bag guys !  

Towns 5 miles away;   Subway ,BBQ Caboos, Iron Kettle home cooking,Wooders Delli and Grocery Store , and all the Jack Dainels gift store stuff you'll ever seen ,  Thursday -Sunday Lynchburg Choppers is open , and Saturday morning the local radio station does their show live from the BBQ place (Owner Plays a lot too).  Yea you guessed it , "I live in a tourest town! "

MM, we can trust you to have more planned to do than we possibly can do.  This has always been true on all the trips.

That takes care of the scoot part, now we will talk a bit about the shoot part.

What sort of calibers are you guys bringing?  Be specific, I am looking to see if I already happen to have ammo to support what you bring.

Saw this Garmin ad in Cycle World.
Grab hold of that tail ! ! !
   

LANCER wrote on 11/18/13 at 02:14:57:

big red x for "don't push no FN buttons and hang on"