Suckered my boss into approving 13 vacation days for next month — for five years I’ve had managers that are reluctant to approve two weeks off, and the time I’ve chosen couldn’t have been worse — which gives me a total of 19 days for two wheeled roaming. The first few days will be traveling to the FJR Eastern Owners Meet to spend a weekend exploring the mountains along the border of North Carolina and Tennessee. They’ve posted up the routes for seven rides, all of which look fantastic so it is going to be difficult to choose which rides to make…
Then I’ve got a vague notion of doing the Blue Ridge Parkway — which my father has been telling me to drive since I was a teenager — and Skyline Drive. A friend suggested that I spend a day or two in Washington D.C., which is appealing since I’ve driven around or through dozens of times yet never actually visited my country’s capital, but it does pose logistical challenges if I’m not to be disarmed for this entire trip.
From there I’ve probably got another 10 days to fill out. There’s the family option in Jersey, or I could swing down and out to Texas to visit friends… Or I could skip the mid-Atlantic area altogether and make a run out to the Grand Canyon.
Decisions, decisions…
