Category Archives: Ride Reports
The trip to Deals Gap was awesome. The weather Friday was perfect. The traffic on Friday was perfect. It was a perfect day and probably the best day I have ever had down there. I made it down in just 10 hours, 9 hours of riding with an hour of stops.
The weather Saturday was a little bit less than perfect. The day sure started out good, and I thought I would have another excellent day, but rain soon blew in and the temperature dropped. Most of the people who were there were smart enough to trailer their bikes in and most of them went home on Saturday. I spent the day waiting for it to stop raining. It never did.
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Thats right! Mark and I squeezed Deals Gap, TWO, the Barber Museum, New Orleans, Memphis, and the Natchez Trace into a one week trip! That is a lot to squeeze into a week on the bike!
For you entertainment I squeezed the whole week into 21 minutes and 48 seconds!
As usual, the last day of the ride is the least eventful. We rode through all the horse farms in Kentucky and that was pretty interesting. The other good thing to mention is Rt. 41 in southern Ohio. This was our route into Ohio and it was an excellent ride. After so many freeway miles in the last couple of days it was nice to ride a good country road in the sunshine!
We woke up once again to an unbearably hot day. We headed straight to Graceland which was just down the street. Graceland was OK, but I wish we had skipped it and just continued to ride the Natchez Trace Parkway. Still, it was the Elvis ride and how could it be the Elvis ride if we did not visit Graceland? They gave us these strange little walkman like devices to narrate our tour.
