Well we made it to TN it is to hot for fat boys but Ken loves it. Hit Nashville and now in Dickson TN. We are hoping to make it past Nashville tomorrow.
Category: Dan’s Blog
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Day 8
Off to find go mini they refurbish the original minis and put up to a 270 hp Honda power plant and front clip. We didn’t find it but you need to give us a E for effort.
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Day 7
We rode the Blue Ridge Parkway most of the day. We got bad directions so we asked someone else and found the Dragon it is a stretch of US Hwy 129 it has 318 curves in 11 miles. Alex a rider that we met and he took us up to the dragon on the way up going about 40 mph he stood up on his seat turned around and took our photo going about 40 MPH. We asked if he would send it to us, and he said he would. We are now in Maryville, TN for the night.
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Day 6
We are now in Boone, NC the Blue Ridge Parkway is a great ride. We now have a little over 1100 miles of appx. 7000. The Motorcycles are broke in and we are having fun. It rained some today so it slowed us down. It is forecasted to be thunder storms in the am so it will be slow moving as well.
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Day 5
Bike maintenance late start to Covington Va. Some rain and a good picture of “leaving WV.”
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Day 5
Maintaince day change the oil lubed the chain and the like. So that gave us a late start. We have traveled through beautiful places and we didn’t get very far today, we are in Covington, Virginia.
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Day 4
Off to the homestead down to the corner diner stopping and asking directions we made it. We talked about what Dads life must have been like around here. We dumped some of Moms ashes in the creek that is along side Daniels Run. What a depressed area. We then headed for Charleston WV. Doug wanted the GPS named so I have dubbed her Lib or Lady in the bag. So here we went off to get to the hotel and Lib took us on some new and very exciting roads. Will not tell you what some of the boys wanted to do to me for that.
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Day 3
Good trip in West Virginia. Met with another rider (Pat) in Weston WV. We had dinner with him. Spent the night headed for the homestead. We have talked about this trip with a lot of people and we will do more of that before we get home.
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Day 2
Today was a good day. About 200 mi. The only mishap we had was when the dealer put on my radiator guard they left the cooling fan unplugged. Ken found it when we were waiting for the bike to cool down. We checked into the hotel and went looking for the 2 addresses that we had for houses Dad lived in. One was a newer projects housing and the other looked a lot like the Ellis street house. We had some fun going around in circles and Doug got tired of that quickly.
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Day 1
It was a long day. As Jim and I flew yesterday we took a bump in Chicago spent the night in a Holiday Inn Made it in just before Doug and Ken. Their was a Limo at the airport so we took it to the Hotel unpacked our helmets and took the Limo to the dealer the bikes were ready to go and we headed out. We went to a park had a soda by the river then back to the hotel to get a good nights sleep and head for Akron in the AM.
