Tennessee, Mid August

Bones · Jul 12, 2011

Hopping on the bike on the 18th after work and plan to be in Knoxville Friday afternoon with a hotel stop someplace along the way. Trip out is interstate, no frills just get there. Roughly 750 miles with an overnight. Simple but boring I know.

Staying with some former XRRA/KOH racers, I don't name drop laughing1 Friday night through Monday morning :drinkers:

I took Monday and Tuesday off to get home, so plenty of time to NOT be on the interstates until I get back to the midwest. I will hit Deals Gap for sure, been there a few years ago. From here I am unsure where to go. I could head NE from the gap and clip Virginia and head through Kentucky or traverse west through Tennessee for an entire day checking out sites, good food, etc.

I tend to go A-B on my bike trips and want to SEE THINGS this time and smell the roses with many stops for anything from history, food, sites, landmarks, tours. No real agenda is the agenda

I will add suggestions to my GPS and try my best to hit as many places as I can in a the time frame I have.

Thanks

InDaShop · Jul 12, 2011

Kelly and Miles told me how beautiful Cherokee, NC is. Its east of Deals Gap on the Great Smoky Mountain Expressway (74) to Whittier then north a bit . All I know is that there is a Harrahs Casino there

Then head north towards Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge and hit Dollywood in there!!!

CHASMAN9 · Jul 12, 2011

You might want to look into the Gatlinburg area, eastern Tn and make your way back through the Smoky Mtns towards Maggie Valley and North Carolina. Just got back from there and it was beautiful drive.

Bones · Jul 12, 2011

Last time out I was on this

this trip will be on this scoot with only a backpack strapped to the tail. Gatlinburg sounds like a must see. I remember when Kelly called me driving through there Wyatt. laughing1

wizzo · Jul 12, 2011

gatlinburg is definately a good spot to check out, specially since your already pretty much there. if you head north through KY, mammouth cave is pretty good site see'n. they've got the regular tours and wild cave tours where you get off the beat'n path. http://www.nps.gov/maca/planyourvisit/gocavetours.htm

John Galbreath Jr. · Jul 12, 2011

Ride the Blue Ridge Parkway. Mt. Pigsah has a small hotel that caters to bikers. Rustic, but with nice restaurant. Only place I ever stayed that has a wake up knock, as there are no phones in the rooms.

TBItoy · Jul 12, 2011

Wooo. It's gonna be like riding with the devil's hair dryer blowing in your face in mid august. Good luck with that!

Bones · Jul 12, 2011

TBItoy said:
Wooo. It's gonna be like riding with the devil's hair dryer blowing in your face in mid august. Good luck with that!

Heat doesn't bother me until I have to stop. laughing1

blacksheep10 · Jul 12, 2011

InDaShop said:
Kelly and Miles told me how beautiful Cherokee, NC is. Its east of Deals Gap on the Great Smoky Mountain Expressway (74) to Whittier then north a bit . All I know is that there is a Harrahs Casino there Then head north towards Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge and hit Dollywood in there!!!

We hit 441 in the dark on accident with no sleep for 2 days at 2 am and it was still cool enough to wake us us. I wanted to start at Gatlinburg and head East from there until it wasn't cool anymore, then turn back around and get a cabin. :woody:

Totally beautiful country.
That said, I'm going in OCT, not ****ing AUG laughing1

CHASMAN9 · Jul 12, 2011

I need to talk Haley into letting me "rent" of his many bikes and run it with you Bones. drool :****:

Bones · Jul 12, 2011

blacksheep10 said:
That said, I'm going in OCT, not ****ing AUG laughing1

I'm going to hang with Kim n Droop :dblthumb:

InDaShop · Jul 12, 2011

man i aint talked to them since they had all that trouble selling their buggy. hope they are doing good.

BadRockOffroad · Jul 12, 2011

Gotta go from Dragon to Fontana dam, down cherahola skyway to tellico plains over to murphy and then down to to suches and then stay at TWO WHEELS ONLY B & B through hellen GA and dahlonega and back over mtn to chatsworth ga were I live, then up to nooga tn. Awesome loop!

Bones · Jul 12, 2011

InDaShop said:
man i aint talked to them since they had all that trouble selling their buggy. hope they are doing good.

They don't like you :flipoff1:

InDaShop · Jul 12, 2011

Bones said:
They don't like you

tell me something i dont know. give kim a hug for me and pinch droops ass for me, k, thanks!

5BrothersFabrication · Jul 12, 2011

I agree with Gatlinburg and Cherokee, but be sure to run through 321 through Townsend, takes you to the Dragon via foothills parkway. Beautiful loop ride. Lots of historical stuff in Cades Cove, off of 321 at the end of 73.

whiskeymakin · Jul 12, 2011

townsend is cool. cades cove is also, only with A/C and a cooler of beer tho :****:

1TONZR2 · Jul 12, 2011

should have done this trip last year. we looked into doing Deals Gap area and never commited to it. now my bike is forsale and I am on the brink of deployment. booyang

CSMITH · Jul 12, 2011

CHASMAN9 said:
You might want to look into the Gatlinburg area, eastern Tn and make your way back through the Smoky Mtns towards Maggie Valley and North Carolina. Just got back from there and it was beautiful drive.

you're gettin OLD if you ride down the road and care about the scenery
:gay:

And real MEN don't use the word beautiful unless he's trying to get a shot of leg!

Bones · Jul 13, 2011

5BrothersFabrication said:
I agree with Gatlinburg and Cherokee, but be sure to run through 321 through Townsend, takes you to the Dragon via foothills parkway. Beautiful loop ride. Lots of historical stuff in Cades Cove, off of 321 at the end of 73.

I believe I did all of that last trip out, but will verify. Thanks