The wife and I are up for a trip to Arkansas (she won't let me go on that trip without taking her along for ballast company).

Oldfeller:  If you can find a couple days with a good weather forecast, I will sneak off to the mountains with you and dodge afternoon showers!  I can't do it the last 2 weeks of June  - so that would only allow sometime between now and June 14th.  The current forecast shows the 11th - 14th to be cloudy but dry.

July is pretty open for me at the moment.

I going to need to use the next dry spell to get my first hay crop into the barn.

So , later in June or July I can get Marcia and the bike into the Truck and go almost anywhere.   Subject to approval by said "Marcia"  
or
I can put a tent and overnight bag on the bike and take a week long ride .  With no need for approval from anyone.  

In either case it would be nice to meet one or more of you fellers for a day or three .  

This place is ruffly $50.oo a night and if the wife goes then I don't get to save $$ on camping ...

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Those falls look like something I will have to do when the wife comes along.....she wants to spend as much time hiking/shopping as she does in the saddle!  The Highlands area is always clogged with tourists and slow traffic - when Stew and his brother Bailey and I were in the area in November - it was one of the first times we were able to enjoy the narrow/curvy road at a normal speed.

The weather here has been very wet, and I was only able to ride the bike 1 evening......Fri/Sat/Sun has been on/off drizzle and a peak of sun now and then.

I need to use up some vacation days before July 1 - or I will lose them.  If the weather turns nice - I likely will head down to the Daniel Boone National Forest and see if I can find any good riding and lodging in the area.....for me to get there is about half as far as going to the Dragon area.

It all sounds too complicated to me.  Trying to include the wives, shopping and a couple days ride up the Bluegrass Parkway in good weather and fit it into everybody's schedule sounds like a hard thing to plan and execute well.

If you want to meet at the KSL and ride around for a few days with the guys - pick some good weather days and I will come if I can get away.

I can't go the rest of this month.....July 2,9 & 12-14th I have commitments that will keep me from going.

So far the weather up here is like last year - rainy whenever there is a chance to go riding.......this is getting old as I had hoped for more chances to go riding this year.

MMRanch wrote on 06/13/19 at 08:24:00:


I believe it is the same for my wife.  She says she wants to try some longer rides - but she has her schedule so full of daily events that it is nearly impossible to get her on the back of the bike for more than an hour or two.  Whenever I am off and the sun is shining....she ends up being too busy to go on ride with me.  If we did come down to the KSL area, it would likely be a tow down and unload.......trying to get to the area on back roads would likely be a 10-11 hour ride.

I don't see how I could get her schedule to include any time for a ride down to TN/NC this summer.

how's the weather July 21-26th ?

The schedules and erratic weather just don't seem to make the BlueRidge ride work for the coming months.

Today is nice here in KY....then thunderstorms are forecast for all of the next 10 days.  This year is looking to be a match for last year - which was the 4th wettest year since they started keeping records.

At this point I think the best we can hope for is some good weather in July, and with a nice forecast we can "bug out" for a few days of riding our favorite roads.  I am starting to believe that staying at the KSL and riding to north GA or other remote areas does not make any sense.  We should ride around in the area we are staying......then move for the night if we want to ride somewhere else the next day.  The weather difference between TN/NC/GA seems to be nearly identical as a weather front seems to hit them all similarly - the pop up storms are local and unpredictable.

I am ready to go riding for a few days in July.......hope it works out.

We can schedule a proposed date and hope for good weather - but I believe we need to be able to shift those dates a few days if the forecast is better.

I'm in so long as I am not traveling with work when it happens. I will have to do my usual arrive late Friday and rode Sat and Sun as to limit my time taken off of work.

One of these days I am going to roll up with that pop-up camper so we can relocate on the fly and not have to mess around with tents.