brianinpa
Five Star Vetteral

I’m back from a wonderful week where I put just under 2,500 miles on my bike. I spent a lot of time riding through Georgia, North/South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. If you ride on two wheels, you need to put that area of the map on your bucket list of places to ride. I do not think there is a bad road in the area.
North/South Carolina’s & Georgia’s Moonshiners 28 takes you from one twisty turn to another and there is always something awaiting around the next corner to make you stop and say... WOW! Georgia’s Six Gaps is just another set of mountain roads that do the same thing. Tennessee's Cherohala Skyway is a stretch of beauty that cannot be described by words. The roads that twist and turn throughout the Great Smoky Mountain National Park made me think I was on an amusement park ride and the sights made me think I was in a National Geographic magazine. Oh and did I mention The Tail of the Dragon? 318 turns in 11 miles! After my first time through it, I was spent! My muscles ached from being tense the entire time… demanding to say the least when you ride it on a 900 pound bike, but oh so fun. I had to do it two more times
To cap the trip off, I took the slow ride home and rode the Blue Ridge Parkway/Skyline Drive. Picturesque mountain views that I thought were only possible in Colorado and other points out West. I saw wild turkeys almost every day standing on the side of the road. Deer, squirrels, chipmunks, ground hogs and the other usual suspects were also there. I made it all the way to the 5 mile post of the Skyline Drive before my trip became complete when I saw a black bear standing on the side of the road.
One of those times in a life that make you just sit back and say… Damn! I wanna do that again!
North/South Carolina’s & Georgia’s Moonshiners 28 takes you from one twisty turn to another and there is always something awaiting around the next corner to make you stop and say... WOW! Georgia’s Six Gaps is just another set of mountain roads that do the same thing. Tennessee's Cherohala Skyway is a stretch of beauty that cannot be described by words. The roads that twist and turn throughout the Great Smoky Mountain National Park made me think I was on an amusement park ride and the sights made me think I was in a National Geographic magazine. Oh and did I mention The Tail of the Dragon? 318 turns in 11 miles! After my first time through it, I was spent! My muscles ached from being tense the entire time… demanding to say the least when you ride it on a 900 pound bike, but oh so fun. I had to do it two more times

To cap the trip off, I took the slow ride home and rode the Blue Ridge Parkway/Skyline Drive. Picturesque mountain views that I thought were only possible in Colorado and other points out West. I saw wild turkeys almost every day standing on the side of the road. Deer, squirrels, chipmunks, ground hogs and the other usual suspects were also there. I made it all the way to the 5 mile post of the Skyline Drive before my trip became complete when I saw a black bear standing on the side of the road.
One of those times in a life that make you just sit back and say… Damn! I wanna do that again!