Midnightrider wrote on 12/27/13 at 07:18:46:


I believe the trip is June 7th through 15th -  starting at MM's house and a bike show in his home town.  Then to the Blueridge Motorcycle Campground on Monday for a few days of touring, then the thing will break up on Sunday.  I expect people will come and go during the event as their schedules allow.

sounds good. I'll be 60 this year. I'm selling my Ninja. I guess I'll start looking for an old man's motorcycle LOL.

I hopes he's a funnin' us     -- really I do.

He's the youngest/brightest of the whole group and iffen his bulb is startin' gett'n a little bit dimmer then there ain't jest no hope fer the rest of us AT ALL, NOT NO HOW ....

N 35o 24.235   W 82o 48.682
59 Motorcycle Drive
US 276 Cruso, NC
(828)235-8350

first are the lat and lon  if your gps takes those

http://blueridgemotorcyclecamp.com/

So, lets try that planning thing all over again since folks are paying attention now.  

All previous plans are null and void as the bike rally moved on us by two weeks and that scrapped out all the previous plans.

LISTED BACKWARDS as laid out by the existing plans
Sunday, June 22 we pack up and go home.
We got a motorcycle rally event that takes place on Saturday June the 21st.
We got a Jack Daniels tour that will fill up the day before that, the 20th.
We got riding around here and there and shooting guns and cooking out and stuff like that which will fill up another day. the 19th.
We got traveling from where-ever and dropping by the Dragon while on the way going past it to get to MM's which will take up Wednesday the 18th.
Wednesday June the 18th is earliest show up day at MM's.

We lost track of ourselves on the Blue Ridge Campground part of things as some were talking two week previous old scrapped out plans and Oldrider was tossing out Mondays and Tuesdays without saying which week he was in and Dave was talking about the old scrapped plans and running them backards  ---  so I let the whole thing lay quietly until folks finally figured out we were all discomboobulated by the rally shifting on us by 2 weeks and we were actually talking in 3 different directions.

Blue Ridge is there Monday 16th and Tuesday 17th with no 2 day lock in.   Staying longer requires a Saturday 14th - Sunday 15th two (2) day lock in.  

We will let Oldrider and Dave plan out the first part of the trip since Oldrider has his wife to consider and Dave has all the neat roads he found while up with his wife this past fall.   Plus, by then Dave will have taught his wife to ride his Honda some and they might be cruising at a sedate civilized pace with Oldrider & wife around all them neat nifty wifey ridey roads ....

      why plan it in this direction?   Because Oldrider's wife will go back home at some point in time so her cuddly slow riding part has to come first before she gets all tired of it.

The Five Days of Christmas

On the first day  of Christmas, to family I gave away .....
One 30A Marlin in a pear tree

On the second day of Chrismas, to family I gave away .....
Two historically accurate Mausers mausing

On the third day of Christmas, to family I gave away .....
Three tins of .177 pellets plinking

On the fourth day of Christmas to family I gave away .....
Four magnum Rugers ripping

On the fifth day of Christmas to family I gave away .....
Five hundred rounds of various ammo

..... and a partridge in a pear tree

          (but they shot it all to pieces)

So, the Blue Ridge folks need to decide if they are "before" or "after".

Or we can simply leave it up to the folks who are going to Blue Ridge and then they can figure it out at some future point in time.  

Indecision on Blue Ridge means nobody who is working and has to spit soon on the vacation time will be able to make any firm plans to go with them, but by removing the "confusion" portion of the trip we can go on and plan the MM portion with firm certainty.

The MM portion starts with arrival on Weds June 18th and ends on Sunday June 22nd.   MM will pack that sucker with more road miles, bike rallys and whiskey plant tours than you can shake a stick at (and Oldfeller will have boom sticks and brass bits for those who want to stay in that day).


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Me, if I had my wife along I'd do Blue Ridge first and get a good taste in her mouth with the good accommodations, easy roads and pretty scenery.  

Then I'd simply tell her "when she got tired" we could go home early as I value her comfort and care about how she feels more than the guys or any of this motorcycle shite.  

Wives like statements like that, since they feel we like bikes and the guys better than them sometimes.   Having you willing to toss the rest of the trip for her would make her feel much better about things, really.    

And she will take you up on it, too.

Sleeping in a cabin, on a real bed with a real bathroom with hot showers and hot meals also gives you some bonus points at the front end ....

Starting out at MM's having to crawl in and out of a truck bed sleeping bag, cooking over a campfire getting smoke in her hair, pissing in a porta-potty and having to take her showers under a garden hose -- not so much on them there bonus points from a woman's perspective, buddy.    Riding her ass off on them long long road trips won't go over any better either.

And she'll talk to her girl buds for weeks & weeks about that whiskey plant tour and the bike rally with them young biker tat girls showing their tats off all over the place ....

    jest a wigglin' their tats off, they are ....

One vote for after .....