If you look up great American roads in any book, magazine, or web site one that is always in the top ten is the Blue Ridge Parkway. Left the motel this morning and soon found ourselves in the Great Smokey Mountains National Park with temps in the high 50’s and wisps of fog coming off the mountains down onto the road. An hour down the road and we were turning north at the beginning of the Blue Ridge were we spent the day on lightly travelled roads waving to other bikers and wearing out the sides of the tires. Shirt sleeve weather with scattered clouds was the request for weather for the day and exactly what we received.
In for the night in Banner Elk NC an upscale community in the Appalachians just a few miles off of the Parkway. We will get back on tomorrow but with a top speed of 35 to 45 might not finish the entire 468 miles until Monday.
Looking for a place to take a break we turned off the parkway into a North Carolina state park at Mount Mitchell which happens to be the highest point in the US east of the Mississippi, Mount Mitchell wikipedia. Walked to the viewpoint at the top of the mountain where you can see for miles in every direction and all you see is the forest covered Appalachian Mountains. Traffic was surprisingly light for a Saturday in June making for a great day hope for more of the same tomorrow.
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Sounds like a great day! Brax and I looked up pictures of the Blue Ridge Parkway and the Great Smokey Mountains National Park. Both look gorgeous! We were looking for pictures of your trip first on your website, but didn't find any...?!?! Brax kept looking for you in the pics I would pull up..."Papa???" We're playing pictures from your previous trips now on our tv, and Brax keeps getting excited when he sees all the "cycles!"
Enjoy! Hope the weather continues to be in your favor.
Love you!
Loved that you cited your info on Mount Mitchell! OMG, I must be a student, and you must have spent too much time hearing me curse doing my papers! Love your posts, feel like I'm there, kinda wish I was somewhere besides in front of the computer...next June...
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