I woke up the second day with little expectation other than getting on the road as soon as possible. I have always been an early bird. Getting up 6 in the morning would be consider normal for me. I never like sleeping in.
But since Yermo is a bit of a night owl, I got up and did my stretches and showered. It worked out rather well, we never had to bump shoulders for sink space. We went to get breakfast soon after and got on our way.
We also stopped for gas, and we asked this other guy who was on a motorcycle as well, to take this picture for us.
Yermo told me about how Blue Ridge Parkway is always filled with traffic and that it is very very slow. Obviously, because he said that we got almost no traffic at all.
Soon in the day, I have made a crowning achievement. :) After signaling and honking at Yermo for nearly 2 miles that he didn't notice, I went back to take a picture of this sign. When Yermo realize I was gone, it must have been a couple minutes later, Yermo thought I crashed and died. He came riding back, what must have been 100 miles an hour. Then he saw me just come back from my photo op. I think this was the turning point for him to buy the SENA SMH10 unit. Hahaha. The turning point where the entire MbyMC got the Sena unit...
then there was this awesome turn, with an equally awesome sign in the middle. A few more stops as we go higher and higher up into the mountain.
We then get to a scenic highway that we decided to hike in. We found a rock that over see the highway. I later choose to use the photo I got here for the cover of my book with the tag line "roads to redemption" just inside the cover.
The day disappear quickly with one beautiful scenery after another. I didn't think about going home anymore, I did however wish I could have shared this with her and Shaba's little brother. Before long, we are at the top of the mountain.
After the peak, we putt down the mountain, many times just coasting in neutral. There was a few parts at the end, where we gone through tunnels in the mountains that had no lights at all. Imagine leaning into a dark tunnel with no light and no illumination of any kind, not knowing where you are going and even though the headlight is on, you can't really see where you are going, cause the light is pointing forward, but you are going left or right through the turn. Pretty harrowing experience. Maybe I'll be able to catch some footage next time, now that I know what to expect.
We arrive at the end of the parkway entrance on the other side. It was a interesting feeling, I almost wanted to just turn around, not go home, but run the mountain over again. But anyone who knows how to enjoy something overtime knows that we always save some for later.
We didn't want to push the last leg to get to our destination, it was getting late, so we took off looking for some where to stay.
