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My spouse and I rode our Harley Davidson Extremely Restricted 898.9 miles in 4 and quarter days. Our objective was to experience our bike all the size of the Again of the Dragon from Marion, Virginia to St. Marys West Virginia. The Again of the Dragon is also referred to as US Route 16 and isn’t “The Tail of the Dragon”. For probably the most half the roads had been nice, the climate was nice and the time away from work was nice.
Over the following few weeks I’m going to interrupt out every day’s experience. Beginning with this put up and day of our mini bike trip.
DAY 1: Run like hell and get moist! Or Storm Chaser Powers Activate.
I get off work, in response to the official schedule at 4:30 PM, typically it’s a lot later than that. This present day I shut down the whole lot at precisely 4:30. Debbie had the bike packed and able to roll. At 4:50 we had been on the bike and headed south to Marion.
Sadly, to get to Marion from our residence shortly we should use Interstate 81. I81 is, for my part, a horrible highway for bikes. Tractor trailers are constantly altering lanes to get round one another slowing site visitors from 70 to 45 MPH. The massive truck had been operating three abreast on some elements of the freeway.
The automotive site visitors isn’t any higher. Drivers within the left lane operating at or beneath the posted velocity restrict forcing individuals to dash round them. Distracted drivers texting on their telephone, which is much more madding when you recognize that individual vehicle has palms free in-built! You need to have your consideration on the highway 100% of the time and searching so far as forward as doable.
Taking the above under consideration I hoped to get to Marion in about 4 hours. That didn’t occur.
At about hour three, the clouds turned darkish, then very darkish, after which our Storm Chaser Powers had been as soon as once more energetic and at full energy. We left the freeway on the subsequent exit and parked underneath the awning of mother and pop fuel station.
We had been solely toes away from the awning when the total power of the storm hit. The rain was coming down so onerous it was troublesome to see the far aspect of the highway. Lightning was hanging inside a mile of the place we had been sitting. The water within the car parking zone rose so quick that inside minutes it was lapping throughout our tires.
Debbie was trying on the telephone at each climate radar and close by lodges. She noticed a break within the storm and a resort six miles away. Mounting up, we began to maneuver out after I observed that the water between us and the highway was about 18 inches deep.
I want I had the digicam on as we handed by means of the water, it appeared like Moses parting the Purple Sea! Hitting I81 once more I needed to run rigorously with flashers on. We made it to the resort with minutes to spare earlier than the following wave of rain arrived.
Luckly the resort had garments driers out there which made the following day much more enjoyable! Additionally, this was the one rain we had for all the weekend.
Subsequent up – Day 2 Taming the Dragon
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