Everyday Randomness

The Trip

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Little A spent most of the day with me sitting at one of the pull offs. We parked so he could watch his mama riding up and down the mountain on her motorcycle.

Allison and Hubby wanted me to grab some pictures of them so they don’t have to wait for Killboy to get their photos up, but my little Kodak point and shoot just can’t keep up with the bikes. I seriously want a DSLR!

Allison went by in a blur.

She was followed by Hubby on our friend Rodney’s ‘06 GSXR 750.

Hubby has been debating on whether to upgrade to an R1 or a GSXR 750. I think he’s definitely sold on the 750 now. He really enjoyed it.

There was definitely a good bit of traffic this weekend. On our first trip through The Gap around 10:30am there was a nice group of Mazda’s going through. I videoed the first 6 minutes of our trip through so I could have some footage of the dragon, but I didn’t get the entire 11 miles. I stopped recording when we came up on a group of slow cars that kind of put an end to the enjoyable ride (even in the Blazer). By the afternoon there was a nice group of bikes.

We also passed a total of 5 Blunt Co. and 1 THP on the way through the first time. By the time we came back with the bikes a lot of the cars had headed out to check out the other roads in the area, and THP only had 1 trooper out. The cops were pretty nice for most of the day.

We did have a little trouble at the end of the day, but the trooper was pretty nice about it. We didn’t know that there’s an age limit in Tennessee for passengers. In SC you can ride as long as you can touch the pegs, but in Tennessee you have to be 14. Allison pulled over once we got out of the curvy roads to let Little A ride with her. We passed a THP sitting on the side of the road, so instead of pulling her over he just followed her back to our friend’s house to make sure nothing went wrong. We really need to get a list together of the different laws for the different states to be sure we aren’t doing something we’re not supposed to be doing.

We ended up back at our friend’s house for a BBQ, then we loaded up last night and made it home at 1am. I didn’t take any photos at the BBQ because my camera battery didn’t want to cooperate. Hopefully my new one will be here in a couple days.

At the end of the day we grabbed a few photos at the Deal’s Gap sign.

They Don’t Call Them The Smokies For Nothing

Looks like a volcano!

Happy Mama’s Day

Happy Mother’s Day to all you wonderful mothers out there!  If like me your not a mom, let’s celebrate as an unofficial woman’s day!

Man am I tired.  We got in last night around 1 am, and even though I passed out almost as soon as I walked in the door I’m still super drained.  All that sun and heat yesterday got to me.  We just finished up the mother’s day stuff, so I decided it was time to upload some of the photos I couldn’t send yesterday.

We didn’t have signal anywhere around Deal’s Gap, and I was only able to send out a few texts after we drove another 28 miles past the Gap to our friend’s house.  Blogging a few photos didn’t work out like I had planned.

So, here we go.

The next few posts will be nothing but photos.

We’re here!

Wake Up!