Looks like you had a great time.

If you want more twisties in Va, the route up to Natural Bridge should give you a good dose. I wish I could remember the actual route, but I wasn't paying attention and missed my exit on I-81 (I am famous for zoning out and missing exits) and took the route around NB to get to Lynchburg. Anyway, that route was so narrow and so twisty, that I actually got nauseous driving my car (and I love driving roads like that).

Plus, Natural Bridge is well worth the trip, although if you want information about the geology, you need to look it up in advance, since the site is privately owned by creationists (as a geologist, this breaks my heart).

 

probably passed you somewhere, the wife and I took the ride, we live just down the mountain, rode the drive today to luray. We travel it a lot because we enjoy it so much.

 

Thanks for sharing

 

Thanks for helping make people aware of the Blue Ridge Parkway. The wife and I drove it for the first time last October and had one of the best vacations we've ever had. The whole time I kept thinking about how great it would be on a bike. Definitly one of those "before I die" things to do.

 

The bags were made by Akers Ranch. A bunch of Amish and Mennonites. They hand tool bags for horses, so they made me this set for my bike. Thick saddle leather and all the beautiful hand tooling.

Its just the new biltwell helmet that I had pinstriped. Started as plain flat black with the chrome trim. 80 bucks.

And thanks guys. Yeah, being just 100 miles from the Blue Ridge is nice. Living in Chicago most my life you never get to see nice roads with mountains unless your willing to travel great distances!

 

I'm impressed how well that video came out with your wife holding that camera. It was very stable and clear. I'm not sure my Kodak HD camera would've done that well.

 

Nice pics. We're leaving Saturday to stay in Maggie Valley for a week. I'm torn between leather or not. Looks like you and the wife were comfortable without. Any suggestions anyone? What's the temps like up in the mountains?

Thanks.

 

Oh yeah, it was high 80's all day. Only dropped 5-10 degrees over 3000 feet. We put a our riding gear in the bags in case we needed it. The only thing that wouldn't fit in the bags (in addition to my wifes jacket, my blue jean jacket and the rest of the piddly things) was my leather jacket itself. And I just rolled that up and strapped it to the luggage rack. But like you said, we didn't need very much. It was warm for the most part.