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motorcycle touring Memorial Day 06 (50) 
photos D.Clow – Maryland
VendrediEntrée UneVol work Friday before the weekend theft of the fleet. Everyone cracks a smile out of the coffin of glass and concrete work week and the company. The bike is quickly gassed and loaded, I will leave Washington, DC 3-30, vowing not to check the weather the rest of the adventure. Adventure, the adventure of American open road is what I’m looking for. Make your escape from the cameras. Right turn on 15th St. NW, and I passed the car and the Washington Monument White House. Harleys and clones are already queuing up for the annual Memorial in memory of the mall, which is the Rolling Thunder. I will soon be on the deck and I-66 west. I plan to avoid major roads where possible. Preferring the scenic road boring. 66 is a necessary evil to flee Washington, DC metro area as soon as possible. At first, 66 is a good quick run for a while anyway. Loads of Rolling Thunder riders head east 66.Je keeps two fingers under the ubiquitous hello to a biker party colleagues in parts of the time. In my experience, HD guys return confirmation about 30-40% of the time. No big deal, there’s some animosity cultures so different bike. Motor-ism two wheels stereotypes. But the Rolling Thunder guys have greatly increased the response may be due not only one biker acknowledging another, but a patriotic sharing of support and remembrance for those who remain POW-66 and I MIA.Trafic Adding drawers to full HD. Screaming Eagle back patch worked for POW-MIA covers his jacket, and is crowned the “Run for the Wall” patch. I keep a step back and take a natural position of the lag of several coureurs.Après some 66 backup, stop-and-go, we hit a staccato conversation breaks in traffic. Where were you when you see the rain come from? I told him I went to the mountains, Skyline Drive and West Virginia. He says that he has just recently there was the Rolling Thunder in Washington the day and return again on Sunday. His license plate luggage shade, so I’m sure its port of origin. Later, we split up and turn my thoughts. Among the parents of my friends that my stepfather had made in Vietnam. Fortunately for us, but he went so far as the Fort Hood, TX, and came back with good stories of army life and venture capital in Mexico (at least the ones he shared with me). I think the whole life he has lived since then all our experiences and joys. I think that all those who have not returned, lost, if they did not come home. loss felt who loved them, families that have a name mur.La sprinkling rain before Manassas. enough to calm down, but not enough to worry about you again, at least a little. Whooooo. Then come the big drops. I need to ramp speed “of rain ahead of the flag station. finally get it all fixed, and let me back up and out of the sun and the rain stops. Too funny. Now I have wet clothes under the rain gear. Clothing Rain is now protected by the wind to dry me. I engine for more rain promised on the horizon. This brings us to the moment of rain. People always ask: “What do you do when it rains and your bike.” I answer simply: “I’m wet.” Duh. Rain riding has never been bothered. on a straight road it’s no big deal. give more cushion for cars in front. Drive like grandma ramps sortie.Mon turning point is finally reached. Off the west and 66 on 647, Crest Hill Rd in plains, VA. Crest Hill Road is my first bike a slice of heaven to be had this weekend. I am pleased that the wavy line I’ve drawn a map when planning this trip has translated so well in fact. road is still wet from the rain clouds, which passed, and I’ll give a little rabbit, squirrel, and a near-death experience. My first of many animal crossings this weekend. Tea is awesome . mixture tree-lined roads and hill awnings in order to create forest tunnels. Speed ??limit is 45 mph, 55-60 feels comfortable for most parts. Keep an eye on the barn hill to take pictures, I saw my eyes, mind, illuminated by the sun breaking through clouds, and supports the mountain Vista. No luck one of the barns are suitable for the actual layout of the mental image I encadrée.Crest Fodderstack Hill Road and Rd is a long stretch. I take pictures of the church and other buildings with Zachary Taylor Highway. Fodderstack gives more of the same Crest Hill, just a narrow path. Asphalt is my favorite variety, fresh advance. Washington, Virginia is a small historic town bed and breakfast. local wineries seem attraction here as well. Just after the rain has returned to Washington when I was on my way to Sperryville. then really starts to lower, full-on summer storm. Visibility low. Many of the roads and parking will soon resemble rivers. Raindrops monster variety explode on the pavement, and you know it hurts when you frappent.Je quick soaking circuit Sperryville confirms no local hotels. I’m looking forward to this barn-shaped restaurant. my gear soaked bar stool and I occupy another. There are a couple of flying pigs. bartender to get Hefeweizen and recommends Angus burger. Locally grown and grass-fed, we exchange pleasantries of my parents passing burgers through pone not panic about the beer. I’m usually driving alone. This was followed by a meal (the best burger is the weekend!), several cafes, a bar, and this log entry haut.Quelque hand along Crest Hill road I decided to keep the handset off the weekend. It is not TV, newspapers, internet, or e-mail looks like a good idea. Of course, I I am now carefully avoiding the eyes of the plasma above 2 beautiful barre.Entrée DeuxHazel River Inn, Culpepper, VA, has the coolest headquarters across the street in pouring rain ville.La Shady Farms bar has given way to Sperryville and due to lack of local housing, I quiz the bartender for the options. During the other side of the hill on the side of Skyline Dr via 211 is Luray with plenty of motels, but I want to save the hill in the morning. Judge recommends that Culpepper is the Holiday Inn, etcIntensifier outside the sun broke through the clouds again. small enough beats Shady Farms Restaurant, and the bridge. going down to 522, Sperryville Pike, I keep an eye out for photo opportunities next morning I’ll be back out on calls. After the mantra of Dale Borges riding tour around the U.S., I try to avoid the big chain companies, they have restaurants and hotels, and businesses to explore a variety of Local mom and pop. I dive into the motel-ish view of the road to Culpepper out at Sleepy Hollow.Avant my arrival, I’m going through the historic downtown Culpeper. This is cool. Shady Farm bartender had recommended the Culpepper Thai restaurant. I see, but do not visit, still in full before dinner. Cameron Street Coffee looks like a great place, located in an old warehouse. Unfortunately, they closed and become nuit.Douche, Room 102 at the Sleepy Hollow Hotel. I jump on a bicycle, update, and run through the center of the dry heat back at night. Coffee Hazel River Inn comes with a sweet candy fudge on the side. Fishing and Blackberry cobbler with vanilla sauce is divin.Le restructuring plan this trip to be paid. Discount concerns about jobs, careers, housing, and relationships. My bike is a cure. are 600CC and Zoloft on two wheels. Make it raises my spirits. It should not be own race, and there are stretches where I feel the emptiness behind moi.Le cobbler is finished and I can hear the band do their sound check. Snap the battery needs investigation.Entrée TroisJ’ai found Brown Bag Special pub in the basement of the restaurant while I was on my way out the door the sound sound control and headed down the stairs to my feet. Brown Bag Special opened the set, appropriately enough, with “I drink alone.” Ol ‘man, Big Money, to be loved. Only started drinking Big Money Blues trifecta to add a “Breeze” and “Mustang Sally”. Then they made a mistake, many groups who are doing very first guitar. They let her sing. Guitarist karaoke sucked his way through the pipe Tom Petty. He was so out of their way to insert a song he did solo guitar do you have any more to provide some relief. Fortunately, the singer will soon be back on a regular basis with their obligations and the night is over. More good things about the band. Folsom Prison Blues FREEBIRD Cheap Sunglasses “Can not you see, can not you see what that woman, what she did for me,” now in bed Hotel Sleepy Hollow, where the Ghost and the nuances of the prostitutes and the deaths dernières.150 miles today. SamediEntrée QuatreMatin breeze on the Sleepy Hollow Hotel, a hot shower and I’m back on the bike. Quick stop downtown to shoot the Hazel Inn, you are again Sperryville Pike. More stops to capture some of the sites I saw yesterday. Mr. & Mrs. pump. Open mouth caricatures are an accurate representation of the current cost of gas pumps and food will keep your portefeuille.Je tell my daughter her first car, college car, a hybrid. He thinks they are ugly. The bike is not so bad, an average of about 40mpg. Approximately 180 miles of tripometer I look back, even if I have pushed 211 miles of 211 Sperryville avant.A fast behind the mountains and the Blue Ridge Mountains and Skyline Drive. Mountain at the head of my first I really want to bite twisties. Skyline Drive door cost is worth the price. Great scenery and fantastic views. The only drawback is the 35 mph speed limit, the Rangers completed a few self-portraits that parc.Je Pollock Knob overlook. They’re funny that all of the files. Scrambling and rushing the camera timer, you are trying to make a relaxed pose and I took his old friend to this trip, Lubitel 166 medium format 120mm film camera with two lenses. I like Jay-Z with a device I can get it in one take. There are no digital magazine after clicking on the instant gratification. If the guy is a photographer for “Point, Push, and pray.” I’m curious to see the results. Not that I’m lagging behind in digital. Porter of both cameras, I have a risk / D double.Après self-portraits and a few shots of dead trees, so I pack up and return the bike from when I meet a preacher and his wife. He intends to kill me with my camera and I will return the favor to them. the flow of conversation and the time, “Small World” shows that it works the same Hazel family, who owns a restaurant that I had last night in his work from Monday through Friday. I’m friendly, “God bless” and I head south Skyline Drive. I still many steps to get out the camera again and death is a big Meadow.Il gnarled tree in the middle of the prairie. It is a burn injury is the result of a cold sore, or base, or the burn is to maintain the area. I’m on the ground and shoot a few deer, they probably will not go, because they are too far from my lens on the D100. I take a lot of shots of the D100 tree, then completely change processes Lubitel. configuration file Lubitel takes about one and a half minutes. Manual zoom, ie, walking back and forth to get the framing I want. of the reading light. Then look at the camera upside-down processing of the optical box. There is a funny thing to create, change tempo and dynamics. one click though, I hope I did attrapé.C is a long ride, but enjoyable in the south end of Skyline Drive. If you’re really slow cruising I choose the third Skyline Drive, you want to add to your trip and leave the rest. I drop into the hill, and Waynesboro. Find a coffee Mad Anthony late breakfast. I hear it’s around noon. Italian roast coffee is good, in fact, this is the best coffee voyage.Un joys of traveling on a motorcycle, it’s easy topic of conversation. People are asking, where are you from where you’re going to ask you for your bike, say that you’re on your bikes, or that they would like. One feature of these conversations is that if a person even remotely knows someone who died in a motorcycle, they can not share that fact and data. These stories usually involve deer, pulling the car, or someone to take a fast corner. conversation goes something like this: Stranger “nice bike” you “Thank you! Stranger” My cousin Bob was a friend who hit a deer and died on his bike, “Short silence.Vous” Yes, deer are dangerous, be careful, “I do not exaggerate when I say I have found variations of this conversation many times. Fortunately, this is not a conversation I had with the owner of Mad Anthony. This is an old sailing instructor, who is now the same version of your bike and head off, he used to travel in their own voilier.Cela reminds me of the same page – is not dynamically occurs between sail boaters and power boaters, very similar to the racing crowd, and the owner of a coffee guru HD.Le, we discuss roasting (my Italian roast was just roasted Wednesday this week). We’re talking about good and evil of Starbucks. We both agree that they will roast their regular coffee, but I think their foo foo drinks are delicious. It has its own shops in the BODUM press pot and use to vacuum coffee I had my mom’s x-mas. Shameless plug here BODUM vacuum coffee maker makes the best coffee ever. It is also a fun crowd pleaser, not plaisanterie.Laissant Waynesboro plan was 340 northward to 33, the Harrisonburg (Home Valley Mall and JMU). 340 turned out to be boring, so I jumped to 256, Port Republic Road, Harrisonburg better ride. I do not know if the coffee had suffered off or I was just tired. I will draw over at Westover Park, choose a location and take a nap on the lawn at soleil.J “was my motorcycle bug left my stepfather. My kindergarten school year, we moved to the end of the school year. Instead, the transition from school this inopportune time, my dad got me stuck on the back of his Honda and drove me to school and back over the last month or two. Much earlier than what I have a nice picture of me listening to his chopper with him 1973-4. Me a diaper and his long hippie hair. The wild side of the Reverend effet.Rafraîchi my nap, he is back to 33 westbound. The title of the Shenandoah Valley and Rockingham County is the most glorious winding roads and the George Washington National Forest. GW is a great tree-lined road with a canopy on one side of the river. Franklin, West Virginia is a destination, back to the hotel Star.J ‘star was a few years before when they first re-opened the historic Star Hotel. Owner, Steve Miller, is a great guy, friendly and talkative. I told him I would be back, but It was a few years more than I thought. Star Late lunch of grilled chicken with pesto ciabatta bread with roasted red peppers. This is not the type of rate may be related to West Virginia, but people are getting ideas across. Steve promises a prime rib dinner later that night mourir.Alors, that there is no misunderstanding, because the hotel was a dive Sleepy Hollow, Star Hotel is one of the back room rêve.Dump speed bike for some roaming around. I’m going to explore the path of the river as I passed, Rock Gap. It is a gravel and I’m back a little ways. Photo some shots of the river. lower level is a large rock with a college aged kids after a day of climbing gear. I’m trying to stop back tomorrow and get some climbing and some fishing activity picks up a bottle of Barefoot mouche.Je wine, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Steve at a time to keep the file for future reference. I’ll take that bottle later in the evening from the 3rd floor of the porch. Southern town that I contributed, in some very few of you. I’ll take a decrepit cabin, which has risen from Bobby Sargent. I put the metal back to the future location of the shooting to the model, the patches of the river I ity. We have a few more steps on this little tour. If for what seems natural chicken and then the middle of the road looking down a young doe. He is shy, but the camera is off before I could get a shot. Sportbike is probably not the best means of transport of wildlife photography . decisions on the pavement and the gravel begins, I engine. Rick & I once spent a whole day a lot of gravel roads that crisscross the back country around Cumberland, MD. So I’m satisfied with at least the ideal sliding surface. A few miles down the road dead-ends a couple of chicken houses (the source of the ancestors of wild goose, perhaps?) And I turn around and survey the valley I just installed the. I have to stop the bike and soak in the scene. A beautiful farm house is nestled in the corner of the valley of the mountains. I meet some of the curious cows, with the farmer and his femme.Il seems that if you’re in West Virginia and you will lose the sign that says “snow stops here,” the conditions of the road already suspects will deteriorate rapidly and will soon see a bit of a forest road. I motor through some back country, not the houses, farms, not just the mountains, steep cliffs along the way, and wicked curves winding gravel. component that gives you goose bumps in a corner, where the downhill slope of the road tipped off the curve and fall down. Ouch, I cringe when four-wheel would be much more functional. Although I’ve always hit a few straights . sidewalk will happen again and I’m not sure of your exact location. I followed the chicken farmers directions and soon I find myself re-Brandywine, gaining the same stretch of 33 I went on my way to Franklin.Retour star hotel has a shower and fresh clothes before the lunch. Downstairs, I found prime rib to be as good as it promis.Entrée CinqComment is beautifully staged. Barefoot on the 3rd floor terrace, wine, and to facilitate the return of pain genou.205 30 miles today, this year, after the arrival of the specifically explorer.DimancheEntrée SixTôt morning. I can not find climbers is Rock Gap, certain hours they keep. Franklin is 33 west, look for another wavy line I had seen on the map. Bland Hill Road name is misleading. one-lane road winding country through the valley of the German language. I had a few shots in the valley in Germany 33 to before turning on Bland Hill. Now I find myself in the same place I was driven haut.Les the road cuts through some of the open pasture and I’ll meet some of the cows standing in the street, after rounding the bend. They are pleasant enough, if in no hurry to cross, and do not mind posing for a picture or two before termination. People talk about the risk of hitting a deer, a cow would really ruin your day! Off Bland Hill and down into the valley. I rock formation that I had not seen before to ignore. This is not a Seneca Rocks, but the same type of training. I get more photos, then click on the valley road in German. I always stay at a time, there is no real destination today. It is relaxing to stop as much as I voudrais.Allemande Valley Road gives me about 33 west, and soon after I order breakfast in Valley View Restaurant. Dale Borges places to warn that promote home cooking, but it’s pretty much what you see in those areas. There are plenty of cars here and it’s usually a good thing because the food is good. Hell, even the army could make a good breakfast. It works and it’s one hell of a much as the toast, 2 eggs, hash browns, bacon and café.De 33 I hit 28 and turn off the smoke hole in the road, simply because it’s there and it looks interesting. boy to find it. A combination of a nice wide path winding sheet road (gravel free of charge at the corners). This is great. Smoke Hole Road is from 28 to Seneca Rocks National Forest at 220 on the other side. Westward the beginning of all the curves and hills, and then ends by winding along the South Branch of the Potomac. There are many fly fishermen here to enjoy the catch and release section rivière.Jusqu to 220 in St. Petersburg, I drop the boys Ducati station. We exchanged info and I will soon be riding the 42 north towards Mayville. hang left, when I see the character of Dolly niidumättad. I’m back on the road, and I fast-forward ” no other prophetic signs of snow. The rest is gravel road up the mountain until it breaks on the Lawn Dolly.Je’m really happy with today’s roads, the Road Hole Dolly niidumättad smoke and was not expected ‘discovered adventures. ” I do some rock scrabbling at Dolly Sod and enjoy the view from atop the cliff. Fellow tourist snaps a shot for me, I hike in the far distance, to the casual tourist and families go. More shots out of the rock with both digital and film cameras. Do some more portraits. Then I sit on a cliff side breeze to relax in the sun on a regular basis and update this diary. Entry SevenEh well, fellow traveler, if you made it this far I am impressed enough. Thank you for your perseverance. Rest of the day was dedicated to the horse without incident. Doing a bit awesome. You do not have to be on par with Lewis & Clark to explore to find great rides in West Virginia. Just curious in nature and is not afraid to think outside the box. Place the marked path and the path less traveled. Soon you will get your home is unknown. Blah blah blah.Sur Turf Dolly and I’m the 32nd Rough calculations put the dirt road about 25 miles a day. Although we have statistics, today is the animal route: death coq1 renard2 vaches8 chipmunks7 vivants1 death.3 morts1 écureuil1 blob of dead possums (indiscernible) No deer redoutable1 chienJe card today, I will be guided by the rather non-descript mountainhighlands.comLaissant Dolly Sod on 32 puts me crotch dry 33 west and back to a familiar Elkins. I cruise around Elkins is in the off chance I run into a guy I know the name of Dallas. Now all you need to know about Dallas is: I do not know his last name once gave him a haircut with clippers dog grooming I know that he works in a bicycle shop doing choppersVous represent opportunities for me to find it, close your curiosity zéro.Si it was not the first time when I cut hair, but for the first time using scissors dog. Korea, I cut, cut, or latrines for 6 pack. Everything was barter in the army. We had a cook who make you a personalized birthday cake for the big event of a beer or eat the food back to the chow hall at 3:00 distributed in a drunk from the city bought for the promise of a future cycle. Korea can expect to meet another revue.Quoi Regardless of the south Elkins and Beverly. Scott, if your reading this you were in my mind that I went through the city, do not ever forgive oublier.Jusqu “Now, I just tried to write a positive experience of the journey without food thrown at a bus somewhere. C & J in Beverly however, served hamburgers and barely functional vanilla shake was the worst chemical prefab variety. There are things that I’m stuck with vanilla ice cream is a good one. others’m picky beer, whiskey, steak, cheese steak, and coffee. It’s so disappointing when something you enjoy is usually a nominal sous.Après C & A , J is 28 to 250 East, head back towards Seneca Rocks and Franklin. This is a good shot through the Monongahela National Forest. various scenic route, with good twisties up the mountain and the whole landscape. This type of tea has become quite common here in West Virginia. Back Seneca Rocks and 33 east of Franklin. I will not let Seneca Rocks, light is never good number, we can say, how do I get my lumière.Le starred restaurant is closed on Sundays, a dagger, I shower and head to foot in Franklin. around Franklin, West Virginia. This is a fairly small town, quiet and peaceful. No, I do not see the bars after the VFW. Everyone I met and spoke in a pleasant, friendly conversation, both here and elsewhere in Franklin, WV. I’m sure there are many more different characters than any this is just my observation from upstream touristique.Après last night, I grab another vino from the Shell gas station. Star is closed is a dilemma, I need a corkscrew (after loan restaurants the day before). I walk down the hotel, wine in hand, and just outside the hotel, until I met an old man sitting in the front. I explain my situation, the wine can not escape, and he says that he sells me a corkscrew. it goes to the house, will soon need a tool on hand. I think I have a -4 or even rent for one time.
