Ride across the USA

[The A-man]

OK guys, here's a brief ride report form today, call it a "micro rally on the Blue Ridge Parkway". I met up with Houtman and Django just before 10:00 am this morning at the Folk Art Center on the BRP in Asheville. We headed north to visit mount Mitchell, the tallest peak in the Eastern US. (Apologies, as most of the pics are on Django's camera). Stopped at a few overlooks, including this one.

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Beautiful day, with great visibility, and low humidity. We visited the summit of Mt. Mitchell, then headed north, with a plan to have lunch in Little Switzerland. Here's a pic I took of where I live (see the blobs of water in the center of the pic, about 30-35 miles away).

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We decided to take the "long way" to lunch, and headed down the mountains on HWY 80, then over to Rte 221, then up the mountains on 226A ("The Diamondback) to the Switzerland Inn in Little Switzerland. After a nice lunch on the outdoor patio overlooking the valley below, we said our goodbyes, though we headed off together.

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My plan was to break off at HWY 80 again to go back down the mountain and back home while Houtman and Django continued on South to Asheville. That all went well until I got about halfway down the mountain, and I found the only rain squall in all of Western NC. It literally rained on me for 15-20 miles while the sun was shining most of the time. Good news: the jacket I bought from Ferret at last year's rally is really water resistant (thanks Mickey!). Bad news: my jeans, socks, leather boots, underwear, etc are not water resistant!


Anyway, great day of riding, great to meet Django, and it was really fun to share a little bit of our world with him, and to hear about his adventures on this cross USA journey! Safe riding on the rest of your trip my new friend!


Hopefully, Django will post some of the better pics we took using his camera.