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it seems like these two words go together like peanut butter and jelly. if someone owns a goldwing, he or she has ridden the blue ridge parkway. after i bought my 93 wing, my wife and i just had to go to the brp, and ride it from skyline drive down to cherokee north carolina. i got out all the maps, and sent via snail mail, 1993, for all the info i could get, and sat down at the dinner table, in order to pick out all the hotels, and motels, and bed and breakfasts, on the entire route. we stayed at 14 different places( i say places because most of them werent hotels). a few memories: banks of otter, meadows of dan,(i love that one!,) hill top inn, (remember this was 16 years ago), and im not looking at any memrobilia, tunnels, many tunnels, and some of the most beautiful scenery that any person could hope to see in a lifetime! and i remember fog, my god fog , like we have never seen before, waking up to leave and everything on the bike looking like it had just poured down the rain. we would have to take a towel from the bathroom of the place outside and wipe down the wing before we could see through the windshield. oh and did i mention that this was in august? the first two weeks to be exact. and i remember my wife on the back of the wing, video camera in hand, most of the whole trip, unless it was raining, videoing everything that happened, every turn, every swooper, every deer, and a whole lot of her blue jeans when she thought she hit stop and didnt. i remember looking for what we thought was a hotel, but turned out to be a bed and breakfast, going up these roads and back down the same roads that werent fit for a TANK, looking and looking, and finally finding it and being very surprised at it being a b and b. see the fun we had before gps? :dude: this is what we felt like right here. but we endured, and ill tell ya what, i wouldnt trade those memories for all the money in the world. ( well lemme rephrase that), all the tea in china.... whatever that means. so how bout it wingnutts, lets hear your story/storys, bout the blueridge parkway. was it everything you thought it would be or was it a bust for you? did you enjoy the putt, or was it a pain in your a**? inquiring minds want to know! :18liteblue:rick:?:bat:
it seems like these two words go together like peanut butter and jelly. if someone owns a goldwing, he or she has ridden the blue ridge parkway. after i bought my 93 wing, my wife and i just had to go to the brp, and ride it from skyline drive down to cherokee north carolina. i got out all the maps, and sent via snail mail, 1993, for all the info i could get, and sat down at the dinner table, in order to pick out all the hotels, and motels, and bed and breakfasts, on the entire route. we stayed at 14 different places( i say places because most of them werent hotels). a few memories: banks of otter, meadows of dan,(i love that one!,) hill top inn, (remember this was 16 years ago), and im not looking at any memrobilia, tunnels, many tunnels, and some of the most beautiful scenery that any person could hope to see in a lifetime! and i remember fog, my god fog , like we have never seen before, waking up to leave and everything on the bike looking like it had just poured down the rain. we would have to take a towel from the bathroom of the place outside and wipe down the wing before we could see through the windshield. oh and did i mention that this was in august? the first two weeks to be exact. and i remember my wife on the back of the wing, video camera in hand, most of the whole trip, unless it was raining, videoing everything that happened, every turn, every swooper, every deer, and a whole lot of her blue jeans when she thought she hit stop and didnt. i remember looking for what we thought was a hotel, but turned out to be a bed and breakfast, going up these roads and back down the same roads that werent fit for a TANK, looking and looking, and finally finding it and being very surprised at it being a b and b. see the fun we had before gps? :dude: this is what we felt like right here. but we endured, and ill tell ya what, i wouldnt trade those memories for all the money in the world. ( well lemme rephrase that), all the tea in china.... whatever that means. so how bout it wingnutts, lets hear your story/storys, bout the blueridge parkway. was it everything you thought it would be or was it a bust for you? did you enjoy the putt, or was it a pain in your a**? inquiring minds want to know! :18liteblue:rick:?:bat: