Well as some of you may or may not now, back on May 12th I loaded up my beloved F4i with luggage and hit the road on an 18 day adventure, which ended up taking me a total of 5126.3 miles, and through 10 states. I left south Florida on Friday the 12th late in the day, then made my way up and out of Florida, through Georgia, then up Rt. 129 through the N. Georgia mountains and into North Carolina. Got to Deals Gap on the 14th and met up with my crew from here in SoFla (most of them went to Barber for a trackday that prior weekend). Stayed at the Fontana Village Resort on Rt. 28 about 9 miles from the Dragon, stayed there for 4 days and did TONS of riding all around there, which was AWSOME!!! Left there on the 18th, and while everybody else left back for SoFla, I left for Virginia Beach! Made it there my Friday afternoon, rode across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel (for anyone that doesn't know what that is, it's a 24 mile long bridge that connects the Virginia mainland to the Eastern Virginia shore. It also has 2 underwater tunnels, each 1 mile long). Rode up Rt. 13 for a bit almost into Maryland, but not quite there. Came back and went to a friends house in Hampton, VA and stayed there for the night. Saturday morning head out to hit some more twisties, so I took Rt. 33 out of Richmond, through Virginia and across West Virginia, which was absolutely BREATHTAKING scenery and super nice roads!! Sunday I made my way up into Columbus, Ohio to visit a friend there and then shot across the rest of Ohio, Indiana, and into central Illinois to my sisters house. Next morning went up to Chicago to visit my mom for a couple days. First time she's got to see the bike, but she really liked it! Even wanted to go for a ride so I took her around the block in her neighboorhood for a bit. Wed made my way back down to central Illinois to my sisters house, stayed there until Friday, then went down to southern Illinois to Carbondale and met up with Fred (cbr04) from this very forum! Hung out with him for a bit then back on the road, through Kentucky and most of Tennessee, where I stopped for the night just south of Nashville. Saturday made my way down to Atlanta, where I met up with Saba (Kewl Breeze from cbrworld.net... rides a 954RR), hung out with him then we both went and met up with Fred and his GF once again here in Atlanta. Got something to eat then got a grand tour of downtown Atlanta and surrounding areas which was pretty cool. Stayed there then sunday on the road again, and finally made it into my driveway safe n' sound by about 3:30 this afternoon. All in all, is was a F'ING AWSOME trip!!! Had a blast on the twisties in GA, NC, VA, and WV, got to see some old friends and even meet a few new ones too! I've gotta give mad props to my bike though, she ran like a friggin CHAMP!!! Not even so much as a hiccup the entire trip. She took me everywhere I wanted to go without question, in temperatures ranging from 41 degrees (or so they say... it felt colder, lol) on top of the Cherohala Skyway, to 95 degrees and blazing sun in the middle of Georgia, and just performed absolutely flawlessly!!

Anyways, before I keep babbling too much, I'm working on uploading my 376 pictures that I took. Also have 7 full MiniDV tapes from the GAP from my tankmount, but I can't really upload those. I'll be posting pics as soon as I get them finished!

 

Sounds like a really cool trip!

Glad you made it back safe and sound. Can't wait to see some of your pics.

 

lol... glad you made it back a-ok jared! it was nice meetin's you!


outside the office...



jared cleaning his chain...

 

did you get to ride BLOOD MOUNTAIN?

 

sounds sweet, I am plaining a day trip up to McCall for all the local riders here.. if any one is going to be in the Boise ID area on and around july 15 give me a pm... or post up on our local forum that are in my siggy...

 

Can't wait for the pics. I would love to do that but my RR seat is way too uncomfortable for long distances. You said that you stayed 9 miles from the dragon but did you ride it? If so how was it?

 

Hell yea we rode it... about 5 times or so That thing KILLS your wrists, back and forth back and forth non-stop!! Barely out of one curve and BAM there's another one, hahah. Soooo much fun though! I really didn't want to come back home, and then had to go back into work today, that sucked

Anyways, pics are up! Look in the Sights N' Sounds forum it's there, and don't forget to click the link at the bottom of my post there to see all the rest of the pics I uploaded to my album (363 pictures total)

 

yah if i move back home, in debate with self, then i'm going to go HUGE F*in detour. Could take 95 straight to my parents door (wv) but not going to do that