Topic: Ozzie & Porthole "Post" MV 2007 (Read 3312 times)

porthole · « **on:** October 24, 2007, 10:54:33 PM »

OK here we go.
After most of you left Sunday morning we headed west and had breakfast at the Mountain View Restaurant. Good down home food with a great view. From there a leisurely ride west and back to Fontana Village area. We went back to the Dam hoping for another glimpse of the Eagle, but no such luck.

Fontana Lake, about 90' low here

porthole · « **Reply #1 on:** October 24, 2007, 11:00:08 PM »

Never really paid much attention to this waterfall, have you?
This is on Rt 28, aka the Hellbender, on the way towards the Dragon.
There was no water flowing here.
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porthole · « **Reply #2 on:** October 24, 2007, 11:00:55 PM »

We stopped at Deals Gap and did an up & down on the Dragon. We staged our running on the way down to try and get both bikes in the pictures. The picture below is a low resolution shot grabbed from the Killboy site
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porthole · « **Reply #3 on:** October 24, 2007, 11:06:01 PM »

After the Dragon we headed south towards Robbinsville.
About 2 miles north of 129 on 19 is the entrance to Wayah Rd

30 miles of twisites, just plain awesome. Very similar to the road we did Saturday coming back from Asheville
The picture below is somewhere along Wayah Rd.
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porthole · « **Reply #4 on:** October 24, 2007, 11:10:09 PM »

We headed into Georgia on some more great roads. Come to think of it, I don't think we were on a road for the whole trip that we didn't enjoy.
Went down through Helen, the Oktoberfest is in full swing there, with lots of people. We ended up in Athens again for the evening (9pm). This was the night my new HID headlight started blipping on and off

Another early start to a beautiful sunrise and we were on our way to South Carolina
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porthole · « **Reply #5 on:** October 24, 2007, 11:13:04 PM »

I'm not sure where the trail is, but the whole ride through SC was nice, lot of history here!
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porthole · « **Reply #6 on:** October 24, 2007, 11:13:47 PM »

Cotton field after cotton field for the next 3 days

porthole · « **Reply #7 on:** October 24, 2007, 11:14:21 PM »

We rode to Charleston, didn't tell Glenn why, just sort of roped him into it.
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porthole · « **Reply #8 on:** October 24, 2007, 11:18:41 PM »

In June of this year 9 Charleston firefighters were killed in a devastating fire in Charleston, SC

http://cms.firehouse.com/web/online/Charleston-SC-Tragedy/Reports-Say-9-Firefighters-Killed-in-South-Carolina-Sofa-Store-Blaze/56$55139

Most people who were not in the military, police of fire service wouldn't understand, but I knew if I was within a days ride I would have to go.
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porthole · « **Reply #9 on:** October 24, 2007, 11:21:44 PM »

These Charlestonites (?) are very proud of their new bridge. Very similar to the suspension bridge in Delaware, except this one had cables coming down both sides of center

porthole · « **Reply #10 on:** October 24, 2007, 11:23:24 PM »

One lane was closed of some type of roadwork, made a great place to pull over and get some pictures.
This is the USS Yorktown, now a museum

porthole · « **Reply #11 on:** October 24, 2007, 11:25:52 PM »

From Charleston it is a short ride to Sullivan's Island. More old houses and a genuine fort, Fort Moultrie.

This triangular lighthouse is very close to the beach and walkways.

porthole · « **Reply #12 on:** October 24, 2007, 11:31:46 PM »

A tough shot to get
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porthole · « **Reply #13 on:** October 24, 2007, 11:32:30 PM »

More private parking spaces

In this picture you can see my new magnetic camera bag on the gas tank, made it much easier to take pictures, rather then keeping it in the saddlebag.

porthole · « **Reply #14 on:** October 24, 2007, 11:33:16 PM »

Waiting for the sunset
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porthole · « **Reply #15 on:** October 24, 2007, 11:34:52 PM »

You know, waiting for and watching the sunsets pretty much guarantees you are going to ride in the dark, with or without a headlight.
Spotlights do a good job though.
This picture and the 2 above were from the Isle of Palms
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porthole · « **Reply #16 on:** October 24, 2007, 11:38:25 PM »

We stayed in Georgetown (9pm check in) and had another great sunrise, although today we were not riding into the sun for two hours like several days of our trip. This was taken at the obligatory stop in Myrtle Beach
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porthole · « **Reply #17 on:** October 24, 2007, 11:38:47 PM »

porthole · « **Reply #18 on:** October 24, 2007, 11:41:09 PM »

Onward to Southport North Carolina where Robert Deniro made the Cape Fear River famous.
We stopped for lunch at this quaint little place. The original part of the building dates to 1792.
We had a fantastic chowder here. Southport is loaded with history and old homes
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porthole · « **Reply #19 on:** October 24, 2007, 11:41:59 PM »

We took the ferry from Southport to Wilmington. Nice way to break up the ride a bit and ........
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porthole · « **Reply #20 on:** October 24, 2007, 11:42:43 PM »

the only way you will get to see this Civil War era lighthouse
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porthole · « **Reply #21 on:** October 24, 2007, 11:45:58 PM »

Continuing north while passing over Camp Lejeune this V-TOL did a fly by while coming into a landing.
V-TOL = vertical take off and landing
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as Glenn calls it
V-STOL
For vertical take off and stall
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porthole · « **Reply #22 on:** October 24, 2007, 11:46:45 PM »

porthole · « **Reply #23 on:** October 24, 2007, 11:47:22 PM »

Another private parking space, boy they just love the red bikes.

porthole · « **Reply #24 on:** October 24, 2007, 11:49:02 PM »

Chesapeke Bay Bridge - Tunnel

porthole · « **Reply #25 on:** October 24, 2007, 11:49:24 PM »

porthole · « **Reply #26 on:** October 24, 2007, 11:50:32 PM »

Up through the nice roads of Maryland heading towards the Cape May Ferry
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porthole · « **Reply #27 on:** October 24, 2007, 11:51:51 PM »

Final stop for our trip, the Cape May Lewes, DE ferry
We got there with about 15-20 minutes to spare.

porthole · « **Reply #28 on:** October 24, 2007, 11:55:04 PM »

And my last picture, the Garden State welcome sign
Only 120 miles to go
Got to love that pile of dirt in front of the sign
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Gettinold · « **Reply #29 on:** October 25, 2007, 01:18:16 AM »

Duane & Glenn
Many memories on that ride for the two of you for many years I'm sure. Thanks for sharing.

Dave

REGGAB · « **Reply #30 on:** October 25, 2007, 07:49:37 AM »

Duane, Glenn,
Another absolutely fantastic set of pictures. Congratulations on such a fantastic vayage.

lilbear · « **Reply #31 on:** October 26, 2007, 04:17:37 PM »

Duane,

More great pictures! Thanks for posting the post MV pictures. You and Glenn had an awesome adventure! Memories like those, you can't buy! Great of you to share them with all of us. We look forward to seeing you and Glenn on the next segment of this great adventure.

Keep well,
Craig

Boatman · « **Reply #32 on:** October 26, 2007, 04:36:30 PM »

Another nice job with the pictures/descriptions, Duane. I think this trip for Glenn and yourself should be renamed to Duanes and Glenn's excellent adventure, as it was.

charlie · « **Reply #33 on:** October 26, 2007, 09:42:57 PM »

Being from NJ originaley it was cool to see that sign not the libs name on the bottom, but anyway the pis were great seems like a good trip.

porthole · « **Reply #34 on:** October 26, 2007, 10:05:31 PM »

Quote from: charlie on October 26, 2007, 09:42:57 PM

not the libs name on the bottom

Do you mean the governors name?

porthole · « **Reply #35 on:** October 26, 2007, 10:06:23 PM »

Quote from: Boatman on October 26, 2007, 04:36:30 PM

I think this trip for Glenn and yourself should be renamed to Duane's and Glenn's excellent adventure

Yes it was, we had a great time.

JR · « **Reply #36 on:** October 26, 2007, 11:41:29 PM »

Duane, you sure know how to capture a moment. I always enjoy looking at your pictures. Truely was a great adventure, I enjoyed it, thanks for sharing!

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