FJR Gary
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I left home about 8:00 am Sat. morning heading for the meeting point in Waynesboro, VA. The temperature heading down Rt. 29S towards Charlottsville varied between 36 and 40 degrees and finally edged up to the mid 40s by the time I reached Charlottsville. I was glad I had installed my Cee Baileys +2, +2 a couple of weeks earlier. I then headed on to I-64 to Waynesboro. Heidi (luvtoride) and I arrived simultaneously at the gas station at 10:30 am. She made good time from Norfolk, getting there in 3 hours. Glen (ONE MORE BIKE0 and his wife Cheryl arrived shortly thereafter.
Here are our bikes at the meeting place. Glen was on the Goldwing.
We waited a while for JimLor and his wife Lorie to arrive, and then headed out Rt. 250W towards Monterey, VA. Jim and Lorie left the group at that point and headed back home. We stopped briefly in Durbin, WV looking for a place to eat lunch. Saw this neat steam train there:
We continued on west and finally found a Subway about 3:30. Temps were in the mid to high 40s most of the afternoon. We arrived in Summersville, WV at 6:00 where we checked into the Sleep Inn, them walked across the street to Applebys and had a few adult beverages before turning in for the night.
We awoke to a frosty 27 degrees Sun. morning. I've never had to scrape frost off my bike before:
Here's the view east from the motel parking lot at sunrise:
By the time we rolled out of the parking lot at about 9:15 it had warmed all the way up to 36 degrees. We headed S on Rt. 19 to see the New River Gorge bridge about 25 miles away. Here we are in the visitor center parking lot. From l-r are Cheryl, Heidi, Glen and Jim Meadows (spklbuk), our native WV "tour guide"
Here's a pic of the bridge from the visitor center overlook. This is the longest steel arch bridge in the world and the second highest bridge in the US. The main span is 1700 feet long.
We rode the one-way road down to the bottom of the gorge. It had a couple of really "hairy" hair-pin turns. The bridge from the bottom of the gorge and the bridge across the river at the bottom:
We then headed back up Rt. 19 to Rt. 60E. Since this is Jim Meadow's back yard, he took us on some really great roads including highways 60, 39, 20 and 55. Jim said we had to ride Hwy 150, also known as the Highland Scenic Highway. He was not wrong. We stopped at several overlooks and took in the great views:
From there we continued on Rt. 219 and 39 to Warm Springs, VA where we parted company.
I headed N on Rt 220 to 55, then I-81 to I-66 and arrived home just before 9:00 Sun. night. Rode 731 wonderful miles on this trip. Met some great new folks and had a fantistic time. Sat. night Glen (who is from Spring Hill, FL) said that the next time he talks to God, he's going to ask him to move part of WV to FL so he can have some twisty roads to ride
And a big thanks to Jim Meadows for being our tour guide.
Here are our bikes at the meeting place. Glen was on the Goldwing.
We waited a while for JimLor and his wife Lorie to arrive, and then headed out Rt. 250W towards Monterey, VA. Jim and Lorie left the group at that point and headed back home. We stopped briefly in Durbin, WV looking for a place to eat lunch. Saw this neat steam train there:
We continued on west and finally found a Subway about 3:30. Temps were in the mid to high 40s most of the afternoon. We arrived in Summersville, WV at 6:00 where we checked into the Sleep Inn, them walked across the street to Applebys and had a few adult beverages before turning in for the night.
We awoke to a frosty 27 degrees Sun. morning. I've never had to scrape frost off my bike before:
Here's the view east from the motel parking lot at sunrise:
By the time we rolled out of the parking lot at about 9:15 it had warmed all the way up to 36 degrees. We headed S on Rt. 19 to see the New River Gorge bridge about 25 miles away. Here we are in the visitor center parking lot. From l-r are Cheryl, Heidi, Glen and Jim Meadows (spklbuk), our native WV "tour guide"
Here's a pic of the bridge from the visitor center overlook. This is the longest steel arch bridge in the world and the second highest bridge in the US. The main span is 1700 feet long.
We rode the one-way road down to the bottom of the gorge. It had a couple of really "hairy" hair-pin turns. The bridge from the bottom of the gorge and the bridge across the river at the bottom:
We then headed back up Rt. 19 to Rt. 60E. Since this is Jim Meadow's back yard, he took us on some really great roads including highways 60, 39, 20 and 55. Jim said we had to ride Hwy 150, also known as the Highland Scenic Highway. He was not wrong. We stopped at several overlooks and took in the great views:
From there we continued on Rt. 219 and 39 to Warm Springs, VA where we parted company.
I headed N on Rt 220 to 55, then I-81 to I-66 and arrived home just before 9:00 Sun. night. Rode 731 wonderful miles on this trip. Met some great new folks and had a fantistic time. Sat. night Glen (who is from Spring Hill, FL) said that the next time he talks to God, he's going to ask him to move part of WV to FL so he can have some twisty roads to ride
And a big thanks to Jim Meadows for being our tour guide.
