MotorCycle Adventures by Mark: Day 6 / 294 miles "WOW"

WOW is the first thing that comes to mind.We got another late start as we knew we didint have far to go to get to the BRP. Last night was laundry night for us, so we were up pretty late. We left the hotel around 10 this morning and headed to Staunton, VA. without breakfast. After about 30 miles we decided to find a place to eat and found a Dennys. Its a good thing to because after we got in and sat down, you guessed it, it started raining. After we finished eating and getting some fuel, we put our slicker suits on. Now my slicker suit is from Harley Davidson and the money I spent on it, it should hold up pretty good in the rain, not so. It does have a few leaks. After we got back on the road we found our exit about and hour and a half down the road. We took Hwy-64 from here to the BRP and once we got on the actuall road, it was just unbelevable the scenery. Up here reminds me of the Hill country and riding the 3 sisters. No its not a sex thing. The 3 sisters are 3 roads in the hill country that are 335,336 and 337. the difference between there and here is the 3 sisters when you ride them, they have a very rapid climb and decend and after a couple of hours, you have a smile from ear to ear. Here on the BRP, the climb is gradual and the decent is the same, but this goes on for miles and miles. I think the BRP is around 400 miles long and it ends some where in North Carolina. It has a lot of places to stop and look out over the valley and to take a lot of pictures. it is just awesome. We rode around 100 miles total up on the mountain top. We found a place to stop and get a burger. After the burger stop we were just riding and stoping when all of a sudden, you guessed it, rain drops. So we found one of them look out points and stopped and put or rain gear back on as we had taken them off when we first got on the BRP. So here we are, 3500 feet up in the mountains and raining, not a hard rain, but a good one. We had discussed earlier about what the plans would be for the rest of the day and we had decided that we would try and make it to Roanoke for our stopping point, but with the rain, those plans changed. About 10 miles down the road was an exit to a litttle town called Bedford, so doing around 25 to 30 miles and hour thats where we headed to. Now up to this point we have seen sunshine and fog. in places the fog was kinda thick as you couldnt really see what was over the ledge when there was a bend in the road, and there was a lot of bends, So being this high up, raining and in some places fog we rode the 10 miles and found our exit and just as we got on Hwy-43, the rain stopped which was a very good thing. Hwy-43 was a pretty neat little road as it was a one laner both ways and it twisted and winded all the way to the bottom into Bedford. That is a pretty neat little town. Rode by a deer feeding on something in some ones front yard. after getting threw the town and no rain, we decided that we will try for Roanoke and spend the night there, but wouldnt you know it, it started to sprinkle and looking at the sky, it didn't look to promising. Just as we saw that, we passed a Days Inn, made a u-turn and stopped here. Just as we got inside it really started raining, so that is were todays journey has ended for us. I didnt put the mileage down as with the rian, it has played havic with the bikes electronics. hopefully tomorow, everything will be dried out and we can get that and put it down tomorrow night, but my guess is we did some where around 300 miles, give or take 50.
Not sure where day 7 will take us and where we will end up at, but we know it will be a little closer to home.
Today is mine and Lorays 2 year anniversary. Yea i know thats not much to talk about but I really didn't think I would ever be married again as I'm a 2 time loser at this. This time 2 years ago, me and my happy fiance and another couple, who were also engaged, decided to take a road trip to Eurika Springs Arkansas and get married. Now that was a trip, back then. both girls road there own bikes, so the 4 of us on 4 bikes took off for Arkansas to get married. The other couple is Bruce and Rea, so if you see them on our FB page, say hello. So I wanted to wish my lovely wife Loray a Happy Anniversary, and also Bruce and Rea a Happy Anniversary.
Well folks thats about it for me. this place is just plain awesome and I highly recommend a trip up here. The only thing that I could think of that would be a awesome trip would be to come back here in the fall when all the leaves turn different colors as that would be an artist, dream.
Oh yea, our friend Wrench had us a ride going the othere way that is supposse to awesome ride too, but we dicided to ride this. So we will have to come back at a later date and ride that route. Sorry Wrench.
Good night

Hey Hey Hey....2 years married...WooHoo. It has rained all day today, put the rain suits on, take them off, put them on again. 4 states today, sounds like we rode bunches, but PA to VA going thru Maryland and West Virginia takes an hour or so. The beginning of the parway was foggy, then sunny then rainy then foggy then sunny again. We have some awesome pictures though. We're riding and listening to the radio at the same time, and the weather man starts telling us about different counties having thunderstorm warnings with 60 mph winds and tennis ball hail........I'm thinking, where the hell are we? Is that us? 2 people on 2 wheels on this BFR (big freaking rock)...you get the picture. Most of the road doesn't, I repeat, does not have railing.....anyway it all worked out. We had a late breakfast and lunch, so I had cookies for dinner....a diabetics dream. HaHa