Blue Ridge Parkway Trip - Day 8

Welcome to Ride and Rally with Fix My Hog. Here we go. We're starting our last day on the parkway. Headed for Cherokee today. And it'll be cool.

Once we get to Cherokee, we'll have done the Parkway end to end. This is a pretty good forest. 23 tunnels today. We're at the Mount Pisgah and this view gives you a really good idea of what it took them to cut the Parkway in. They literally just cut a ledge, the shelf into the side of the mountain so that the road could go there.

It's the amount of work they had to do to do this is incredible. Here we are coming up on that cut that I just shot from the balcony in Mount Pisgah. And again, I mean, this is such a great view cause you can really see, they literally just leveled out this chunk to create this apron, this ledge that goes around the mountain. Well, this is it. We just passed mile marker number 468.

Blue Ridge Parkway NN is 469 miles so Charlie and I are down to the last mile. We're gonna come up on I think 441 down here and that's gonna be our turn to go to Sevierville, Tennessee. So what a great couple of days and few days and what a great bunch of riding. And honestly, Charlie couldn't be a better partner for all this stuff, this all worked out great. So I don't know, that's it, wrapping up.

Last mile on the Parkway right now. Charlie and I are officially off the Blue Ridge Parkway and we kept calling it Severville, Tennessee, but we learned last night, it's Sevierville, Tennessee. So a couple days ago we met Frank and we were talking about he gave us this great advice and then last night, we met somebody else. And so with Frank's advice, we were gonna cut off of the Parkway just south of Asheville and cut across-- Take a little boondocking route. And then the guy we talked to last night said the downside to that is that the road from Asheville to Cherokee is one of the best parts of the Parkway.

So we made another executive decision and decided, and two, I felt like-- You started it, you better finish it. In for a penny in for a pound. Like bragging rights, it's pretty cool to be able to say we did the Blue Ridge Parkway from end to end 469 point some miles. 470 miles of nothing... There wasn't a straightaway longer than 100 yards.

And so there's a couple curves and turns in there. There were a few, that'd be interesting how many curves than 470 miles and I enjoyed the heck out of it and we're gonna do something where it's more specifically about our feeling about the Parkway and that kinda thing, I guess. But I will say when we got to the end, I was ready to be done today. It was a blast. And it was, I think Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, it's like four days of zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, and then especially yesterday, a lot of car dodging and today a little bit more of that Sunday.

So it was just right for me. Our motorcycle tires are worn evenly on both sides. This is true, this is true. We're getting all the mileage out of those tires because we're using all the edges. So tonight we're in Sevierville in this lovely Airbnb that we blew our budget a little bit on this, but we wanted to treat ourselves in especially a nice place to stay tonight, which this was a good score.

It's amazing inside here. And the chef here has what kind of steak did you end up with? Filet mignon. Filets on the grill-- Wrapped in bacon. Twice baked potatoes.

So we've got a good dinner coming our way. And then from here to Nashville tomorrow, we'll talk about that tomorrow and well, that's it. It's gonna be good to have a beer or two and just sit down and unwind. Have a bonfire and tip over. You might think that every night we end with a beater so that we're alcoholics but we do mix in some gin and whiskey in there as well so.

That makes it okay. That's a whole different thing. I don't know. We probably need to stop there. I don't know where that's gonna go.

Probably not in a good direction. So we'll talk to you in the morning. Ciao.