I recently retired so set out on a little trip. Left May 14, and returned home June 28. I stopped in and visited friends and family along the way and met some really nice people. Out of the 6+ weeks there was 15 days I did not ride.
Currently setting up a 2 weeks+ Adventure down through Louisiana thru Texas then up to Colorado then over to Idaho. It be 2 vtxs and a mtO7. Not got everything dialed in yet, but it looks like the last week of august thru the first week or so of September. Last 3 week adventure was in May-June of 2018. Need to wear out some more tires.
.. . .Mike(TTT)
Long ride, interesting places and rides.
Once you got onto US 129 near the Little Tennessee River and traveled SE to Fontana Dam and beyond you were in the area I have traveled frequently. In Clayton I see you headed
to SC then over Lake Hartwell.
I use GA77 or GA17. Royston is home to Ty Cobb. Never knew until I rode through there.
Madison, GA had a fiber route in that area. I take US 278 instead of I20 most of the time.
Covington, GA may go there for fireworks tomorrow. Brown's Bridge rd to GA20/GA212
just 5.7 miles from the house. GA 20 the round-a-bout at East Lake and Airline Rd are my
most common roads going south.
Been to Ranburne a few times going to Mt. Cheaha, AL. Rocket city(HNVIAL). My son and I went to Nashville and came down Natchez Trace, US 72 to HNVIAL.
Looks like you had a great ride!
I have posted a few more pictures. I found that when I travel alone I do not take as many pictures. There are just so many pictures you can take of your bike.
First of all, congratulations on your retirement. Jealous.
Second of all, when people say "I took a trip", they usually end up going 1 or 2 states over. You toured half the country! Definitely a very long ride. Must have been interesting planning with weather etc. Unless you didn't care and just rode through all the rain.
And third, I agree with others here, we definitely need more pictures!
I loaded more pictures. But I found I did not take as many pictures as usual when I am riding this other folks. I just enjoyed the country side and kept riding.
I hope to put a ride report together, just so I can remember what it did. Which I should get going on before I forget.
LOL, I saw the photographer. I did go look later at the US129 website. I was the first cursier/tourer category photo of the day. I left Kick Stand Campground early, hoping to beat some rain. I was raining at Fontana Dam. You can see that the wind shield is wet. It was a wet day. I holed up in Maryville TN that day drying out.
The wife and I did the Big Bend area last September. Ride Big Bend
Did you by chance see the ruins of the Benedict mansion set from the movie, "Giant", when you stopped at the Air Force weather balloon station on Hwy. 90 between Valentine and Marfa?
I did see them. If it was not for a sign stating that this was the location of the movie Giant I would have thought it was a abandoned farm/ranch. I want to get back to Big Bend next March/April.
Hopefully, the Mexican border crossing will be open and you can visit Boquillas del Carmen. I also highly recommend the Fort Davis Loop, (better, I believe, than the 3 Twisted Sisters in Leakey) and the giant spring-fed pool at Balmorhea State Park. Also, be sure to treat yourself to the four area historic, restored, full-service hotels designed by architect Henry Trost: The Gage in Marathon, the Holland in Alpine, the Paisano in Marfa, and the el Capitan in Van Horn. You'll drop some moderate coin, but I swear, it's like time traveling.
You need to do what I did and get a dash cam for the bike. ( front and rear preferably ) And like in mine not only does it do video but has a little button on it that when pushed takes a picture and it is a good quality picture and of course you will have all the video of the whole ride.
I spliced a bunch of videos together of my ride this summer. At the start of almost each segment I have text that tells approximately where that segment was recorder. There is no color commentary, just video. For Christmas I purchased a new camera for the bike, A gopro so I hope to have nice videos in the future.
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