Fun with Blue Ridge Parkway pictures

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For those of you who don’t want to fool with my multiple flickr sets of trip photos from the Blue Ridge Parkway ride, you can watch a few highlights from the trip on this two-minute video.
Enjoy!

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The grand finale — the last day of the Blue Ridge Parkway trip

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The final leg of the parkway yesterday proved to be some of the most beautiful scenery of the trip. We left Asheville under cloudy skies but as we rode south the sun came out and shone on us from blue skies as we climbed [...]

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I see mountains when I close my eyes – Blue Ridge Parkway trip day 5

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When Brian and I visited St. Petersburg, I’d see onion domes when I closed my eyes. In Istanbul, I saw minarets. On this trip I see mountains. Now that we’re in North Carolina, the ridges look less like really big hills and more like [...]

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So I can beat my dad at poker – Blue Ridge Parkway trip day 4

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I’m cozied up on a lovely soft bed with a down blanket, I’ve just had a delicious dinner followed by hot cocoa and there are mountains outside my window. I can’t see them but I have the curtain open anyway because I like knowing [...]

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Reruns and new motorcycle friends – Blue Ridge Parkway trip day 3

[posted a day after the fact because I had no internet at the farm]
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We left Bedford early (I wasn’t in any hurry to linger at the affordable but grubby Bedford Days Inn) and took Big Island Highway back up to 501 to rerun a [...]

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I’m saddle sore but I made it – Blue Ridge Parkway trip day 1

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I woke up at 4:30 this morning, ready for the motorcycle trip, but stayed in bed another two hours. I thought it prudent to lie prone as long as I could. And good thinking that was!
My dad and I set out at 8:30 this [...]

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Ride like the wind

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I had my induction to motorcycling yesterday with 40 mile-an-hour wind gusts and Derby traffic leaving Louisville as I rode down to my parents’ with my dad and my cousin.
Wind at all, much less wind speed and direction of wind, is a purely academic issue [...]

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The best alarm clock is sunshine on chrome

So I hear.
But then again a case of monkey brain in the middle of the night is pretty effective too. I wish they made a version of anti monkey butt powder for the brain, to help you turn it off in the wee hours. I have a lot to do in the morning and tomorrow [...]

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My dad is a good sport

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My dad and I have decidedly different approaches to many things — travel styles and food preferences just a couple. His cheese and crackers is a packet — mine is brie and warm baguette slices. He’s meat and potatoes, I’m 10 course tasting menu. [...]

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A travel adventure of a new sort, with much leather, a roaring engine — and my Dad

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Come spring I’m setting out on an entirely new type of travel endeavor. No passport required, no visits to ancient cathedrals or behemoth chateaus will take place (unless we hit Biltmore), and no dining will involve escargots or coquille St. Jacques. I’ll see (and [...]

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