9/24/04 - 9/30/04 Ride

9/25/04 - MTF Rally and BBQ

9/26/04 - 9/30/04 - Riding around the Smokey Mountains and the Ozarks

3275 miles for my little riding vacation. The plan was to ride to the MTF Rally and BBQ in New Castle, IN. After the BBQ I was going to head to Deal's Gap and ride around in the Smoky Mountains for a while. When I was done riding around TN and NC I'd work my way west to ride around the Ozarks in Arkansas.

I stuck pretty much to my plan except for leaving the TN mountains a day early. Hurricane Jeanne was planning to dump 3-4 in of rain in the mountain area on Monday afternoon. I decided that my riding vacation was adventure enough for me. Riding through a Tropical storm would get old real fast.

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1map SEmap SWmap

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Here is the route that I managed to ride. I left out the 200 mi rally route through much of SE IN that I rode.

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SE close up. TN is a long state!

 

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SW close up of AR, OK, MO areas