October you say  

There are warm days in October !  

A nice relaxing ride down the Natchez Trace on the first day , from Natchez to Kerrville on day two (full day)  ?   Then Reverse order back to Lynchburg .    That's four days plus Texas time visiting the Sisters .  

Yes , please keep me updated !!

How did the campground a Kerrville look ?   Are our cabins really washed away ?  
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Back to  the June 5th and 6th.  My neighbor that rides an old 1800cc Honda (not Goldwing) that has a car tire on the rear of it.    He's never been anywhere in the area of the Dragon so  today I asked him if he would like to take a two day ride.  He's been watching the U-tube Dragon rides.  

Hay Springman , that same neighbor might get an idea to Visit the Sisters in the fall ... if the Dragon works out "OK".  
 

Yep, all tentative for now and ThumperPaul is correct, weather really is unpredictable in this area.

The campground in Kerville looked fine, except for the cabins down by the river. The cabins are still standing but they have been gutted. I don't know if they are going to tear them down or just clean them out completely and rebuild them.

Will definitely keep you guys posted as to whether the October ride materializes or not.

Glad you're back in the game. Cheers!

I am currently in Hiawassee, GA with family from Florida who rented a house for everybody in the family to come and vacation with them.

Yesterday we unloaded the bike and went for an afternoon ride.  The temperature was 49 when we got up and it was noon before we left - the wife gets cold just sitting no the back so we waited until the temperature got over 60....it did get up into the high 70's by 5PM.

We rode from Hiawassee down 75 to the north side of Helen, then on the Richard B. Russell Scenic Parkway, then Blood Mountain down and back, then up to Blairsville and Murphy on 129...then hit the "Curvy Roads" navigation button on the GPS for the final leg back to Hiawassee.

As we were headed from the Richard B Russell to the north side of Blood Mountain - the speed limit is 35mph even though the road is very wide and could easily be a 55mph speed limit.  A motorcycle rider coming towards us was tapping his hand on the top of his helmet as he came toward us and I figured that was his signal that there was trouble ahead.  Just a few seconds behind him was another motorcycle rider, and behind him was a Police car with the light and siren engaged.......we didn't see him get pulled over as they disappeared around a curve - but I suspect he was getting pulled over for speeding.  On our way back north after riding Blood Mountain both ways we saw the same Police car in a pull off area with 2 motorcycles pulled over and one of the riders leaning up against the front of the Police car and the officer interrogating him.

If you can avoid the cold and rainy days - this is a great time of year to be here.  The roads are pretty clear of RV's and campers as the tourists have not yet flooded the area - Helen which is normally clogged with slow walking tourists crossing the road only had about 10% of the pedestrians that it has in the peak summer season.

If you are headed down this way MM....the weather looks great if you can handled the chilly mornings (it is 49 again this morning - but will be in the middle 70's in the afternoon).

This has never been on my "Bucket List" of things to do on the rides in Texas with Youzguyz.....but he did take some of the fellows to the Slime Bridge in the years before I started going to Texas.

I prefer a clean bike - one without slime or the debris that would be accumulated if you were to slide off the bridge!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0PUeO-bI-w

Dave wrote on 06/20/26 at 13:59:31:



Slime bridge can be very hazardous.  I wrote a "review" on google maps and included some pictures from a group ride I was on that illustrates this potential.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Slime+Bridge/@29.968264,-98.1902967,17.94z/...
That was not the only ride I was on where a bike went down on that bridge.

Even the “real bikers” are staying off the roads today in the Bayou City - where the roads double as water tributaries.