It was a great day!
Here in the southeast we have barely had a day without rain this summer. For those of us that like to ride it has been pretty annoying to get a couple of sunny days during the week and have the weekend start raining again. When we finally got a good looking weekend, my buddy Jeff and I decided to get a good long ride in. We tossed a couple of ideas around and settled on a loop to Hot Springs, NC and back.
Read MoreReady to ride
A while back the opportunity presented itself to go ziplining through the mountains in Asheville, NC. Shannon and I were joining my friend John and his girlfriend Birdie. We met at a McDonald’s early on Saturday morning and piled into the same car to head to a new zipline park called Navitat.
Read MoreSums up Day 3 I think
We just got dried out from our soggy off-road adventure from day 2 and now we have to hit the road again. The best way to describe day 3 is to call it a wash out. Our planned route would have taken us on some legendary roads in the southeast.
Read MoreTaking a break somewhere in Kentucky
Day 2 of our Mancation started out great! The plan was to get up at 8:00 AM, eat at 8:30 AM, then load the bike up and roll out by 9:00 AM. What actually happened is we skipped breakfast and rolled out around 9:45 AM. We needed to get rolling early because we had about 400 miles to cover and we needed to be in Bryson City, NC by late afternoon to avoid the coming rain. More on that later!
Read MoreJeff looking out over the horizon.
