June 5th - 9th 2009 the "Spring Fling"

 We rode along the state line between KY and TN over to Orlinda, after stopping for lunch, Rayzer and Rick made a turn-around and headed for home, they had planned to ride the full day and head back the next morning but decided to make the return early. The rest of us continued on, turned northeast and stayed at Monticello, KY the first night, the town of Monticello is just starting to get into the foothills and has some beautiful scenery and some nice backroads.

 Our next day started off with nice cool weather and plenty of sunshine, we had been watching the weather forecast for days hoping to make our ride at the best time and luckily we did, the whole trip was dry, but we did watch some storms off in the distant but somehow missed getting into them.

 We rode up to Pineville and then into the coal mining areas around Harlan, KY and over to Hazard. The second night we stayed in Whitesville near the Virginia border. Most of the next day was spent riding around the tip of Virginia and then down into Tennessee to Newport for the night. Alton and Mano decided to cut their trip a day short to get home for family needs, so they hit I-40 and made a white-knuckle run back to West Tennessee.

 Bruiser and I stayed another day riding in the mountains and made it back to Lafayette, Tn. for the night, this made for a short easy 200 mile ride back home on Tuesday, even with a couple small detours we rolled in early afternoon.

 Until next time guys, keep it fun and ride every chance you get.
Alton
'Bubba' Alton		 Bruiser
Bruiser		 Mano
Mano at Whitesville, KY
Bruiser and Rayzer
Bruiser & Rayzer		 Meho
Larry		 Bike in fog
Bruiser's bike on a foggy morn
Bikes at motel
AT the Monticello motel		 Al, Mano, Bruiser cutting up
Al, Mano, &  Bruiser cutting up		 Rick
Rick

 

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