Fall Smokey Mtn Trip

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The Mrs & I left the Cape at 6am this morning on our way to visit the grand babies in Raleigh. For our overnight stopping point we chose Berlin, MD. What a beautiful historic town...and its bike week/fiddle week. Will post pictures later. Next week we head to Asheville, then onto Murphy for a week. Blue Ridge Pky time

Chapomis... question. I see that your wife rides with you on the CamAm, which is great. But does she ride with you on any other regular motorcycle? Your CB or any other one you might have? My wife, who used to ride with me back when we were 'kids'... on my Kawasaki H1 no less, won't ride with me anymore. She told me that if I would buy a CanAm, she'd probably do it. Is that why you have the CanAm? So she'll ride with you? Because obviously you can handle a regular bike... Just curious. I don't need 4 bikes... so if I bought one, one of the others would have to go. Not the CB! And probably not the KLR... but I like my Harley too and for real highway travel, that is my bike of choice.

Chapomis... question. I see that your wife rides with you on the CamAm, which is great. But does she ride with you on any other regular motorcycle? Your CB or any other one you might have? My wife, who used to ride with me back when we were 'kids'... on my Kawasaki H1 no less, won't ride with me anymore. She told me that if I would buy a CanAm, she'd probably do it. Is that why you have the CanAm? So she'll ride with you? Because obviously you can handle a regular bike... Just curious. I don't need 4 bikes... so if I bought one, one of the others would have to go. Not the CB! And probably not the KLR... but I like my Harley too and for real highway travel, that is my bike of choice.
Yes and no. The Mrs. Feels super safe on the Spyder, especially on the highway, but will ride pretty much any bike I offer her a ride on, but last year we decided if we wanted to spend more than 3 to 4 hours riding that a trike would suit us better. I test rode a Harley first, but other than the sound I wasn't impressed. We found a place that had a demo Spyder and we both fell in love with it within the first mile, awesome all day 2up ride! Buy in the late fall, hugh discounts. I bought the demo for 5k under sticker. With the CB in the stable, my Harley hardly gets out any more.
Today we sought out some waterfalls. We headed to Franklin via mostly highway from Cherokee, but they were twisty highways Then on to Highlands on US 64/ NC 28. The stretch between Franklin and Highlands is excellent ! It follows a river uphill the whole way to Highlands and the curves rivaled Dragons, but much more picturesque in that there a 4 different sets of waterfalls along the way. We did a lot of pull offs for picture taking and arrived in Highlands just in time for lunch. Nice town with a lot to offer.

This is "Dry Falls"

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Stopped at Bridal Veil Falls.....the Mrs was po'd. Said it should be renamed "Dribble Falls"

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Lunch

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I really enjoyed the ride back down and no stops and no traffic in front of me

Suppose to rain for the next 2 days so we are headed over to Asheville to hang out at the Biltmore....stopping at Wheels Through Time on the way, cheers