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It's
been a while since the 5 Dogs have been able to run together but we made it
happen today. A beautiful Memorial Day Monday mostly sunny skies 85-90'F only a
30% chance of afternoon showers. We all met up at Buffalo Wild Wings in
Culpeper, VA where we met up with the VA Boys for a meal before our venture to
Skyline Drive. Now that our bellies were full it was time to fill up our bikes.
One u-turn latter we found a po-dunk gas station with 4 pumps, 2 of which were
diesel fuel... that didn't work. We started out on CR route 729 until we came
upon a road closure and had to alter course.
Well
it wasn't 2 miles earlier Bill says to me " my Grandfather used to live
around here somewhere". When we made the u-turn Bill arose with
excitement, right there at that point stood his past Grandfathers farm where
Bill spent some of his childhood growing up.
Our
detour eventually lead us to a gravel road. Well it was time to smoke-em if you
got-em and think this through so we parked 8 motorcycles on the gravel road for
a pow-wow. A passer-by said it was just a mile to the next paved road so press
on we would. We joined route 211 to Sperryville, Va and got on the Skyline
Drive southbound. We road through the tunnel south for about 20 miles and I
think the same black cloud that fallowed us in Arizona was tracking us again
because we definitely found that 30% chance of rain. And if that wasn't enough,
after getting gas at Big Meadows we turned back north to ride through it
again... at least it was warm out. Once we got out of the rain it didn't take
to long for the wet Dogs to dry off. Surprisingly there was very little on the
park road and it still made for a beautiful ride with fabulous views. When we
got back to the 211 intersection the VA Boys jumped off and headed home via 211
leaving the 5 Dogs to continue on the Skyline Drive north to Front Royal. I
might add we never saw that black cloud again...maybe we passed it off on the
VA Boys. At Front Royal Dale and Richard headed home on route 522.
Bill, Glen, Angela and I headed home on Rt 66 until we split when Bill and Glen
turned toward Haymarket. Our last leg was on 234 through Manassas on to 95
South to Stafford.
Bill
covered 316 miles, Glen 316+ miles, Tony 224 miles.
Great
ride in the sun and rain....
to Over The Hill Dogs at Skyline
Drive.
Tony
