Well I'll title that trip
Bumpers, Brake Lights and Bad Weather. :angry2:
We had a great visit with you Mike and glad we got a chance to meet. Thanks for navigating our way through Shady Valley and on to HWY 321. I can see now that I'll have to re-visit those roads when it's clear and make it a weekend trip, great area and I look forward to seeing it again.
The rest of our trip continued to decline into misery, if not worse. We made it to the BRP only to hit a detour and get right back off, following local and tourist traffic 10 MPH BELOW the posted limits in rain and fog. After 30 minutes on backroads we got back on the parkway. The fog got so dense I was only following the center line at some points and even living in England for 3 years, I never experiance fog like that. We made it to Little Switzerland by 5PM for a break and to call our other friend from the ZZR forum who was meeting us at the Blue Ridge Motorcycle Campground that evening.
The rest of the ride was foggy, rainy, slow, and full of tourists until we got south of Asheville where the clouds finally parted and we got to pick up the pace a bit. We made camp by 7:45 just in time to order a good hot dinner then hit the road following Jack on his blue ZX-14 in seach of cold beer since the campground is located in a dry county. I didn't realize how much beer those hard bags will hold.
We headed back out Sunday morning at 9am and ended up back on the BRP for a short stretch before heading south east on my old familiar roads. After some nice high speed twisty stuff on Highway 28 and grinding off a few more milimeters on my pegs we got back home at 7PM.
915 miles over 2 days with only 330 of it on the interstate. The remaining 585 miles averaged 35MPH in rain... :dribble: