As much as I love it when Hubby gets to take a day off to have some fun, times like these when he decides to go to the Gap I worry about him so much.

First of all, I always worry about him like crazy when he’s out on the bike without me.  I’m the wife, I’m supposed to worry!  Of course he tells me I worry too much, and I’m find when I’m riding with him, so I shouldn’t worry when he goes off alone.  I tell him I worry so much when he goes off alone because I know he’s more likely to act a little crazy / do things he shouldn’t!

I worry about him even more times like today not just because he’s at a place where a lot of people do wreck each year (cars and bikes), but he’s 2 1/2 hours away from home, and I’ve got no way to contact him.  There is no cell phone signal up there for 20 miles on either side of the one area.

Yeah if something were to happen I’d find out about it no problem.  My best friend is there as well as a couple of our friends who live there.  Someone would call me from a landline, but it’s still I guess it’s just the fact that I’m not there.  If something happened it’d take me 2 1/2 hours just to get there.

Damn it, maybe I do worry way too much.

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.

I finally got a hold of one of our friends last night who Hubby was supposed to meet up with yesterday. When I hadn’t heard from any of them by nightfall I started to wonder if something had gone wrong, and that’s why they didn’t meet Hubby.

I went back through my texts to find out the times I’d heard from everyone. My friend text me at noon telling me she was on the dragon. At 12:56 Hubby text me from the top of the dragon to tell me he was riding 1 more time and coming home. That’s also when he told me he hadn’t seen any of our friends. To me, that just wasn’t right. Unless something happened he’d been there for a full hour and 1/2 waiting on them riding back and forth on his own. He would have at least passed them.

So worrying me text her at 9pm last night to see if she was home yet since I had been told they’d be loading up to head home around 5pm. No reply. At midnight last night my friend text me to say they were loading up and leaving. That was a full 12 hours where I didn’t know what was going on with my texts and hubby’s being ignored.

Now it pisses me off even more because I know nothing went wrong. If someone went down or something happened I could understand ditching him, but the fact that nothing did happen means there’s no excuse why he rode 2 1/2 hours up there after they begged him only for them to not show.

We normally plan our Gap trips around her days off, but not again. If she’s going to be that way I’m not going out of my way to accommodate her schedule.

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.