Due to body/joints concerns I am going to have to drop out of the full protracted trip and just perhaps be picked up for just a sliver of the whole pie. I will ride up with you for a day, spend the night then ride back for home the next day, thus staying inside my somewhat smaller 'soft wrought iron butt' limits.
My best join up spot is the Bojangles on HWY 220 (alias Franklin Street) which will be a couple of blocks north (3,000 feet) of the Roanoke Blue Ridge Parkway exits (ya got two of them exits in Roanoke both on HWY 220 alias Franklin street, so you can actually miss the first one and it does not matter at all whatsoever as the second one works just as well).
The Bojangles is located at 4440 Franklin Rd, Roanoke, VA 24014
(540) 206-2711
I will give you the number for the cell I will be carrying at trip time, since that number shifts around depending on the phone I choose to carry due to best reception. Might even be my Google Fi phone, it has unlimited data reception off of T-Mobile, United Cellular or Sprint towers so it gets everything other than AT&T towers.
Google Fi, gotta love them. Makes the handle bar Google map thing very easy to do. I just ordered me a larger phone holder with corner keeper elastic thingies, so now I can use my big phone without playing catch with it.
Now all you need to do is get up a meet up time that seems reasonable to you and text it in to my cell phone that night when you stop for the first time. Or call me. Dave will be with you by then and his phone works really well with my phone -- we proved that on the last trip.
How is that for flexible? As long as you can tell me the approximate Roanoke meet up time up at least four-five hours in advance I can roll to hit it pretty much on the dot.
And I will be sipping tea, reading a paperback and enjoying AC comfort during my wait time at the Bojangles.