Thursday Lori and I leave on a 2 week adventure on the 1999 Honda Valkyrie Interstate and that has been such a reliable machine. We have done several long distance trips around the USA and not once has she let me down. We had a flat once, but that is not the Honda’s fault. We will be cruising through 5 states sitting in 3 cites for more than one night, just so we can do day rides around those location.
Frist we will ride south through Virginia and West Virginia zig zagging our way to Natural Bridge Va. We will stay the night at the Natural Bridge Resort. The next day we do a loop around Roanoke and end up in Rocky Mount Va and are staying in a Bed & Breakfast. We stay here for 2 nights and do some sight seeing, house seeing, and roll around Smith Mountain Lake.
Once we leave Rocky Mount we will take the Crooked Run Road, most of it, until we end up in Bristol TN. We will be doing at least 4 day rides around Bristol that I selected from Road Runner magazine. I have blown through Bristol so many times always saying I would visit the area, but never did. So now I will cross this off my list.
The second week of our trip will land us at Gary and Lisa Mace so we can visit our old friends that have retired in the Morristown area. Not sure we will time to do any riding with the Mace’s, but will take advantage of this if we can. After we leave the Mace’s our finally stop will be Williamsburg, KY for another 4 day cloverleaf ride around the countryside. I also will likely stop and see the restore P38, Glacier Girl, that sits in Cumberland Gap, Ky area.
I have not added up all the legs, but I imagine we will put around 2000 miles on the bike in 2 weeks riding and site seeing. Looking forward to having time off work, looking at homes, seeing sights in our beautiful country, and riding. It’s all about the riding.
Valkyrie is ready, trailer still needs to be stuffed, and weather needs to nice. Kick stands up, 9am Thursday morning.
Look forward to the visit.
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