Miles: 113 Miles
Ride Time: 6 hours 46 minutes
Avg. Speed: 16.8 Mph
Total Climbing: 8,173 feet
Work: 3838 kJ
It was another cold day with the temperature close to freezing in the morning. But the people we meet along the way are always warm. Our waitress, Kathy, at the Renaissance Hotel for breakfast was friendly and was impressed with our trip. She had also served us lunch the day before and provided us a wonderful fruit plate. She was in awe of our ability to do such a trip. She said he man wouldn’t even take her on a short motorcycle trip. It is great to talk with such good people. It has been one of the highlights of the trip.
Leaving Asheville we were faced with our last 1000 foot climb at about mile 10. We crossed the Eastern Continental Divide at 2880 feet. After the peak we had a long decent. The temperature and speed made for a very cold decent but we were dressed much warmer than yesterday so did not have to stop to warm up. The scenery was just great. Not as good as yesterday since the leaves had not changed much yet here. But I’m sure after this cold snap they we be changing shortly.
We misunderstood one of the directions on our guide sheet and ended up adding almost 10 miles to our ride. We stopped at a gas station to look at a map to figure out how to get back on track and experienced a customer service issue. A customer was complaining about what he had been charged and the clerk just yelled at him and told him to leave the station. We told Hollywood that she could be his future wife. Hollywood said that she made his ex-wife look good. The Captain then asked Hollywood if he was then thinking of marrying her for the third time. We all got a laugh out of this.
We have a great group of guys on this trip and it has made riding such a pleasure. It is had to imagine that we only have two more days to go.
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