Day 5

OK last three days except for visiting my friends in Alabama, it was all ride and mostly on highways.

Day 5 - around 200 miles

Riding in Northern Georgia is very nice specially on rt76 but it was getting dark and after all day of riding twisties I was getting tired so no time to enjoy :( I had to get to Dalton where I was staying at local motel6
Packed my bike in the morning and took off for Alabama, not much happen during the ride and the views were ok at best :P so I didn't even take any pics.
My friends Rich and Jeanne were waiting for me so I was trying to get there fast, plus I knew that they have as Rich like to call a "shack on the lake" so I was still hoping for an nice and refreshing dive into the lake.
Well the place turn out to be a fricken PALACE! and they have jet-ski's so when the Rich asked me if I would like to go for a ride it took me 2 minutes flat to be in my swimming shorts ready to go, what a blast that was and I recorded Gopro video of it.
Lake Martin is very, very nice and big with beautiful houses all around the lake and many islands that people use to camp, I have an official invite to come back there with my friends and I will! thank you guys I had a blast.
Later on we had a nice dinner topped with delicious chocolate cake (Thank you Jeanne) and after watching never ending Yankees / Red socks game I went to sleep at 13th inning - I'm not a baseball fan lol.
You just can't beat Jeanne's breakfast with coffee on quiet sunny morning while sitting on the deck overlooking the lake aaahhh that was so nice I didn't want to leave.
But it was time to go so Rich went for a short ride with me to show around a little and after that we split our ways and I got back on the Hwy hoping to make it to San Antonio in 2 days.
I did
Thank you Rich and Jeanne for taking me in you guys are wonderful hosts and great friends

Made it to Alabama :)

The "shack" at the lake :P

The View

Duke 

Day 4

Oh boy sleeping in the hammock its a bliss, nothing hurts in the morning :)
I had a nice breakfast and few chats with folks from MTF. also I while staying at the rally I meet Mike from Side stand up so that was very cool and maybe if all goes well we might skype talk while I'm down there.
I finished packing my camping mess and pulled up to the front so I can pump up my tires back to 40psi when John owner of Iron Horse walked up and we had a nice chat as he just returned from his Alaska trip, he liked they way I had things packed and also gave me a nice tip on one more spare part to carry with me: a shift link, well I didn't knew that so that was great info plus he gave me a set, Thank you so much :)
Day before the dragon was wet so went again as the weather was awesome and I'm suppose to have fun right? it is a nice experience to push the overloaded cow into those awesome turns and twists :P the photos from on site photographers should be on soon and I will buy some for sure.
Next was Cherohala Skyway which is also allot of fun and  than I went to visit the the Tellico motorcycle outfitters and bought some Nikwax to see if it might stop the damn squeak my Sidi's make lol, it worked and I'd say 50% of the noise is gone.
Off to Alabama today to visit my friend
Cheers

Jerry

ps. I have to work and the flow of my writing sheesh I hope I'll get it :P

Dry dragon ;)

the photo crew at work

and those fellas as well

aaahhh memories ;)

1979 Honda nice and clean

quick stop at Cherohala

shop at Tellico

check out that mod, car tire :)

Well I'm sure that I will loose count on some point :P
I knew that I don't have to much miles to ride today so I took it easy in the morning and did the laundry and had a nice coffee before take off.
The day started with some heavy rain but by the time I got going it was nice and dry, so I hit the road and in no time I was in Robbinsville NC where I made a quick stop to fill up both the bike and my stomach.
As I was getting closer to Deal's Gap on RT129 the road was more and more wet so that got me worry a little as I did wanted to ride the dragon today and wasn't sure how will the over loaded bike handle on the wet twisty road, plus I noticed and little rear end slide on tighter corners - hey what gets?! and it hit me - o yea 40psi lol.

Finally I got to the resort and quickly payed for the camping spot thinking that I still have time to set-up and go for a fun ride, But than bummer camping area was wet and muddy.
So I went back to the office and asked if I can use the two trees at the end of the parking lot to set up my hammock? and the answer was NO! "tent area only" wow another bummer, its not like I was going to use the tree of shame or anything lol.
So long story short I meet some folks that were on the MTF rally here at the Iron Horse so I went there to see if they would take me in, and sure enough those super nice people did just that.
so I'm here right now talking to bunch of great folks that are happy to have me around and listen to me bragging about my trip :P
Cheers

Jerry

On the way to Robbinsville

overloaded cow is getting attention

I think the tree of shame its getting more and more - busy 

my old shirt is still there

few pics from the dragon 

My set-up at the Iron Horse

thanks to the awesome folks from MTF you guys rock