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23 Oct 2006, 5:06 pm / Elated
This past weekend, my hubby was going to ride up to Front Royal, VA area to pick up a Unigo trailer that he was buying used from a guy in Boston (Northern VA was about the halfway point). Since hubby has ridden up to the Deals Gap/Knoxville area twice in the past ten days, I decided to go with him.
My "Big, comfy couch" (The VTX) is still in the shop (mystery problems with the electrical system), so I trailered my 599 up to my parents house in Lynchburg, VA (central VA- about 430 miles from my home), while hubby rode his Golg Wing up. We spent the night, our son stayed with his grandparents, and then hubby and I continued on the last 200 or so miles up to Stephens City.
We rode up the four lane (29) to just north of Amherst, VA, then took Rt 151 through Piney River to Waynesboro. From there, we took back roads up to Stephens City, a couple of which I was afraid would turn to gravel!!! The leaves were beautiful!!
(This is a road that we opted not to take, as it was "too straight"- the alternative was wonderfully twisty!!)
We tried to stay on twisty roads, since the roads down here by Savannah are beautiful, but very flat and strait!!!
We spent the night in Stephens City, after meeting Kevin & Gigi from Boston (You meet the nicest people on a Honda!). On Saturday morning, the rode down the Skyline Drive with us, and then down the Blue Ridge Parkway to Rt. 60, where we parted ways, hubby and I heading back to Lynchburg, Kevin & Gigi riding back up I-81 to Front Royal to spend the night.
(My baby looks so small between those big Wings! But Boop had no problem keping up!!)
I about froze my hands off on the ride!! The Gold Wings didn't have that problem (My hubby has heated grips! *grrrrrr*) I had on some Alpine Star gloves, with some fleece liners under them, and still had to stop about every 45 mins or so to thaw out. All in all, it was a good ride. That little 599 is a blast in the mountains! I can't wait until next summer! I will trailer both my VTX and 599 up to the Drago, so I have the choice of which one to use. Small to have fun through the Dragon, or comfy for the 200 miles loops through the Cherohola Skyway, etc.
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