We were going to do Cherohala Skyway and The Dragon the "proper" way. In the past we have always rushed through the miles and the day to make it round trip home again. This time we were going to slow the day down, stop and smell the spring flowers, run Cherohala one day, stay at a little bed and breakfast centrally located, run the Dragon the next, and actually hit a new road through Great Smoky Mountains National Park. A road that we have wanted to do for years and haven't been able to.
It just wasn't meant to be...
A not-so-little landslide on the Dragon. No one was hurt, but it will be closing the most sought after road in the area for a couple of weeks.
This isn't a heartbreak for us. After all, we have ridden this a couple times. It's just that it was the shortest route to get us around and over to the Smokies and headed back home in the proper sequence. Now we have to navigate the Smokies south to north...then find an easy way to head south again.
It went from something like this:
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To maybe something like this:
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Or maybe we will wile away the day and ride through Cades Cove:
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I don't know. If we spent our time in Cades Cove, we just might have to head back and hit the last few miles of the Blue Ridge Parkway again. Wow. Life would be rough. :)
I hope that your weekend will allow for some good riding plans that pan out.
