Everyday Randomness

I Really Wanted To Go

I seriously doubt we’ll be making our trip to Deal’s Gap this weekend.  I’ve been watching the weather almost religiously all week hoping that by some miracle the weather man would suddenly decide there won’t be rain this Friday for the area, but the more I check the worse the weather looks.

Dang it!  I REALLY wanted to go to the Gap this weekend!  The last time we went up there was around July or August.  Dang I can’t even remember anymore.  Wait, it would have either been the end of July because Hubby had his wreck in August.  We had gone to the Gap a couple weeks before.  We almost had a crash that day…both of us…riding 2 up, but we were able to save it because we were slowed down behind a line of slower traffic.  THANK GOD.

Even worse, as we were slowly making our way back down the mountain we came up on a wreck, and it just happened to be our friend who had been riding in front of us.  He had made it around the slow pack of cars and wrecked a few curves up.  He was going way too fast and riding way outside his limits.

I know Deal’s Gap is dangerous, but then so is riding anywhere else.  The wreck we avoided was caused by a car coming over in our lane.  Sadly a lot of people in 4 wheeled vehicles don’t understand how dangerous it is to lane cross in a blind curve.  They blame the motorcycles because they say they can’t see us.  Well you know what?  NO ONE should be driving in the opposite lane in a blind curve….PERIOD.  If you can’t keep it in your lane, that should tell you to slow down!  Right?

I don’t even remember where I was going with this post anymore.  It turned into a total rant.  Sorry about that!  Oh well, maybe my sleep deprived brain will remember in a bit.