Day 4 Recap - May 16: The Reunion

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Two Important things learned from our ride on Day 4:  One, there is power in numbers and two, GOD created the Western area of Virginia for motorcycle riders.

Jared and I left Rock Hill, NC early Friday morning as planned knowing the Steve, Marc and Grant were 2.5 hours behind us in Atlanta where they slept the night before.  All of the logistics required for a trip like this seemed to be getting better by the day.  We were all improving but still behind our schedules.  For Jared and I, it was keep with the schedule that Steve took three years planning.  For the other three, it was to make up time and catch up.....and so they did.  After fueling at our second stop and preparing to mount the bike, I saw three heavenly beings come toward me named riding a Victory, Goldwing and Harley.  We were UNITED!  The energy, love and emotion of us finally being together was electric.  For 36 hours the three were chasing the rabbits at great cost and succeeded.  Each of us had smiles ear to ear as we hugged, logged our books and headed out of Jenkins, KY as a united group.

If you have a motorcycle bone in your body, you need to drop everything and come ride the "Back of the Dragon" in Tazewell County VIrginia,.  Not only does this area rival Ireland's beaut, but the Motorcycle God's laid miles and miles of the most beautiful paved roads and integrated hills, turns and more turns......and then more turns.  Many felt riding the Dragon was the closest thing to playing a video game or being injected to the most recent Tron movie.  I felt it was the highlight of the trip and am still smiling.

From there we headed to Roanoke, Virginia for our first oil change and 90 minute break and then through Baltimore to Edgemont, Maryland to rest our heads at 1:30 am.

Grant and Cami (batteries died so it got cut short):

Some great ride videos: