Smoky Mountain Rider

Photo – Jackie (my wife) on the newly completed section of NC 281 I’ve been watching this road for a while. When my friend at Gryphon Bikes informed it the he’d ridden it the other day, I had to go check it out for myself. NC 281 from the junction at US 64 near Lake [...]

Photo – Waiting to pass a construction zone Somehow I must have set the GPS to “find the most traffic” and it was working fabulously. I suppose everyone else had done the same as I hit one logjam after another on my way home from Virginia earlier this week. Still, as I left Banner Elk, [...]

Lubed up, oiled up, aired up, filled up, loaded up, new tire, new brakes, new plans, the bike sits aimed towards the horizon in the driveway poised and eager to depart, a mere key turn from hundreds of miles of open road adventure. I am so ready to go – nowhere. “You’re not really going [...]

We celebrated my wife’s birthday last night with dinner at the Pisgah Inn a few miles south of Asheville, NC., up on the Blue Ridge Parkway. I know better than to reveal the details of which birthday this was, but I will disclose the meal was excellent, as good as the views from 5000 feet. [...]

Photo – One of the few bright moments Had I known the weather forecast I probably would have gone regardless. My mind was made up and this was the time. Looking back, maybe I should have payed it more attention. On a positive note, I covered a little more than 500 miles before I bailed [...]

Photo – Wayne, Jackie, Karen, and Chris before the raceI was goaded into this by my wife who was goaded into this by friends. Check one more thing off the bucket list, I’ve done a triathalon. Having previously experienced both a full and half marathon, I had no burning desire to revisit the experience. Still, [...]