Return-Path: Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 09:07:50 -0500 From: "Ed Green - YM6A" Subject: Re: Midwest "RCR"??? Sender: tridod-request@cog.att.net Reply-To: tridod@cog.att.net Martyn wrote, on east@ > It's not really a one-day ride for me, either. > > If I were just attending the RCR this year, instead of OomPah-ing, I'd > do this: get a whole bunch of the local RCR-er's to ride together for > the trip. We'd pick a stopover point near the mountains, like Rider's > Roost for example, and plan on getting there early enough to strafe a > few mountain roads in the late afternoon. My parents live in Knoxville. Big house. Lotsa room. BBQ grill. I'm thinking we head out real early, take 64 across NC, shoot Deal's Gap, and head into K-town. Meet up with the Ragsdales and anybody coming from a different route. Tour Ed Green the Elder's sculpture garden. Burgers & beer. B grade Biker movies. Crash. Through Oak Ridge the next morning, north towards KY. Stop in Rugby for brunch (quaint little restored English colony. oldest episcopal church in the US. i got hitched there). Sandy's from that area, and I know some great roads (which I never get to ride 'cause I'm only there with her and the kids). We can even split off a group for some light-duty offroad (there are a few "short-cuts" I know of, that meet up with the main road). Never been through KY much, but we can pick out a route via map, or just explore our way west. Do the same thing in reverse for the trip home. Just musing at this point -- Sir Martyn hasn't cast the date in stone yet. I know we can use the house, though, no matter what the dates, and it looks to be roughly halfway. Looking at 4 days riding, *I'm* not too keen on camping more than one night! Ed Green DoD#0111 (919) 543-1757 ed_green@vnet.ibm.com