I called up Stanley Steamer to see about riding on Saturday... he had a tractor job,
so we decided on Sunday.
Then Joe and Wimp and Rodney decided to head this way, so they stayed at
a Seneca SC motel on Saturday night... I came over in the car and drove them
over to eat at Applebees...
Stanley got to my house about 9:00, and we headed over to the motel... we headed
out on some of my "afternoon ride" roads, including "The Three Sisters"... three
curvy roads at the base of the mountains... they're kind of like rungs on a ladder,
the rails are The Cleveland Pike and Hwy 76... I can't wait until things turn green
again, but the roads are just as good in the winter
We stopped a couple of places... once at the Music Hall in Longcreek... really
a gas stop and a convenience store made up to look like some kind of
frontier town... they have locals in there playing Blue Grass on friday nights,
and there's a top-notch BBQ place just down the hill from there... sometimes
in the summer me and Carolyn will hit the BBQ place right at 6:00 pm on
Friday, and come up to eat an ice cream cone and listen to Blue Grass
at 7:00 when the locals are playing... they have professional musicians
starting at 8:00 on Fridays, but I don't usually stay for that... during the
warmer months sometimes I ride up here in the afternoon just for an
ice cream cone...
While we were standing around at Longcreek, the Tennessee boys were
complaining about how our !@!!$# governor needs to quit worrying about
the Confederate Flag and start worrying about our potholed bumpy roads
We headed further up out of the foothills and into the mountains proper to get
Joe and Wimp and Rodney well on their way back to Tennessee... it was kind
of creepy rolling through the obviously-still-frozen mountain curves - is that
water on the road? Ice? ...
We split up at the Lake Jocassee overlook... Joe thinks it looks like a Christmas
Tree... I guess if you close one eye and squint at it while leaning over for
a the right perspective...
After that, me and Stanley headed back towards Walhalla on South Carolina's
vast network of well paved curvy mountain roads for a meetup with Carolyn
for lunch at a good local eatery...
A few years ago I got a set of Cobra swingarm pivot covers from Big Mike...
I've never seen a set before, chromed billet instead of stamped steel, but
one of them had bad chrome (fully disclosed before purchase)... a few
months ago I finally got the bad one rechromed - thanks to Curt in
Virginia
... he brought it to me at the wreck-plagued meet
in the middle ride last fall, and ended up giving it to Stanley. I got it
yesterday, it looks great, I can't wait to hang an extra piece of Cobra
chrome on the Log Truck... Here's the newly chromed part along with
the dirty-but-undamaged one...
A few more Sunday pictures...
-Mike
