Riding in North Georgia instead of hiking there
Since the AT trip was canceled and I was lazy on Saturday I got up at 6:30am this morning and rode up 400 to Suches. Then from Suches to Morganton and back again. It was perfect timing as nobody was out at 7am on a Sunday even on 400. I had the most of the roads to myself. I stopped at Woody Gap (where we had finished one of our AT trip prior) on the way out to Morganton and back. I guess they've recently repaved the roads up there. After an initial run up the mountain over the old tar snake covered roads there's new smooth tarmac thats lots of winding fun (except for the gravel in some corners).
Here she is at the Woody Gap lookout. The AT is just to the right and continues across the street to the left.
And here she is somewhere along state road 60. The road twists through some beautiful farm country and up and down little mountains. It'd been awhile since I had ridden roads like this so I was overly cautious on the way out but had fun on the way back.
When I go on rides like this I often take breaks at gas stations, even if I don't technically need gas. I usually get gas anyway because I'm gonna stand around and drink a gatorade or eat some snacks. The bike sips gas and it only has a 4 gallon tank so there's never much to put in there. Today I stopped at the same gas station twice (just before I got off 400 and just before I got back on again). The amount of gas was minuscule. Apparently this set off alarm bells with Bank Of America, who froze my checkcard because the purchases were "suspicious". I can appreciate that. I guess. It was easy enough to sort out once I got home.
I started heading back around 12:30 or 1. It's nice to be able to cruise up to the mountains and dart back in a half day. When I left in the morning I had a slight headache. By the time I was coming back it was terrible. Stopped for lunch in Norcross. Then came home and went to sleep. Woke up at 6 and got ready to go to dinner at Chris' at 7.
Here she is at the Woody Gap lookout. The AT is just to the right and continues across the street to the left.
And here she is somewhere along state road 60. The road twists through some beautiful farm country and up and down little mountains. It'd been awhile since I had ridden roads like this so I was overly cautious on the way out but had fun on the way back.
When I go on rides like this I often take breaks at gas stations, even if I don't technically need gas. I usually get gas anyway because I'm gonna stand around and drink a gatorade or eat some snacks. The bike sips gas and it only has a 4 gallon tank so there's never much to put in there. Today I stopped at the same gas station twice (just before I got off 400 and just before I got back on again). The amount of gas was minuscule. Apparently this set off alarm bells with Bank Of America, who froze my checkcard because the purchases were "suspicious". I can appreciate that. I guess. It was easy enough to sort out once I got home.
I started heading back around 12:30 or 1. It's nice to be able to cruise up to the mountains and dart back in a half day. When I left in the morning I had a slight headache. By the time I was coming back it was terrible. Stopped for lunch in Norcross. Then came home and went to sleep. Woke up at 6 and got ready to go to dinner at Chris' at 7.
posted by outpostbabu at 1:21 AM
1 Comments:
Weee! I love riding through Suches, and especially love to stop by Dale's gas station or TWO to chat up fellow motorcyclists. I will have to try doing a morning run up there sometime, as there is nothing more frustrating than being stuck behind a big SUV in the twisties.
That's pretty odd about the checkcard, but makes sense in a frustrating sort of way. I suppose I would be glad they did that if someone did happen to pilfer my card =)
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