coming around a curve thought somebody had been going to fast turned out his bike had just quit so a lot of folks stopping to offer assitance phil gave him a gallon of gas & some else got back with another gallon he was on the phone with his wife trying to figure it out we said we were headed to where there were plenty of trailers let us know if ya need us to come back gave him my card and we rolled on thought we'd hear that he was good or not but never heard thne we rolled into downtown hot springs and into the campground
camp was right by the river it didn't sux either after visiting with everyone phil and me went back into town just your basic lawnmower cruising town we were going to the diner, actually we went to the diner but it was closed then to the beer store, we're standing there talking to the cashier about guns & phils says red bud are you not gonna take a picture of the rooster in the beer store?
with 2 options for supper we went with the pub instead of the brewery at the front door bouncer with a gun on his hip told us we had to wear a mask to our table so we did the banandas & buffs ordered our beers looking at the menu phil says now wait a minute we had to wear a mask to our seat but none of the waitresses, bartender or cooks are wearing them he asked and they said oh the govener has lifted the mandate since you've sat down we had the cajun patty melt this was the old paddlers pub don't remember what they calle it now waitress was a hoot, living off the grid back to camp
shannigans then bed the next morning i rode around camp, then to the dollar store i had my helmet but i never put it on back at camp will said, isn't nc a helmet state i said yes he said well ya need a helmet i said i got one and pointed at it he said no ya need to wear it, what? your helmet it's right there on and on lov ya will / @RUSTINPEACE
everybody asked about my dad & robin @Mark_O said have you noticed everyone asks about robin and your dad & not you? it's because we don't care about you FYYFF.s i rode tru the campground it's a nice place if not a little pricey for a campground at the other end, more folks asking about them other 2 but they did have a killer bloody mary @Cigars&Scotch grabbed my hand and said i didn't see you last night you dont remember bear hugging me and bullshitting opps didn't mean to call ya out
as you know i'm a harley guy, but i'm not sure what model @papalobster had gas crisis a few of us left out for a ride looking back at our campsite
backing up again, thrusday night or afternoon, maybe someone else can correct the story and add pictures they're hanging out minding their own business when they hear tires squealing and tractor trailer that had lost his brakes turned over just past the bridge in the pic above it flipped off the hill onto some hiker cabins below, ( i think they were empty) caught on fire, then every so offen the propane tanks that heated those cabins one would explode i think the driver survivied, still to close over the mt, starting down the other side @knybanjo was signaling left turn i asked him later if he was signaling so hard because he knew i was back there
this road turned to gravel and between the night before the bloody and sip of something else for breakfast i was to stiff and stayed in the slow group we stopped at the top of the hill for a break @Blue Mule & @jim @Jimbozini & a climb @Cogswell the veiw didn't sux
some folks showed up in side x sides we joked with them then off again i'd loosen up and was more in the groove and able to keep up
we actually passed some awesome waterfalls to get to our break but out photographer missed the shots i was thinking at the next stop i'd head back to camp and take a nap but.............
we hit pavement at easy place to turn back but............... the roads got better how can ya miss that
i'd noticed @Cogswell bike seemed to be sputtering every now and then and a couple of puffs of black smoke, then we stopped to check a few things he must have had ear plugs in, because he didn't hear all the jokes i made about owning one of those old pieces of junk including saying @knybanjo was proabley in tulsa before he noticed we weren't back there or maybe he was ignoring me put it all back together 7 we were off seemed to be running fine, he'd never took off any gear the rest of us had to resuit up see that black dot in the dip up there? that was mike tring to get it started again i pulled up beside him & looked over he was cranking on the starter switch & enjoyed to much saying turn the gas on tru a full face helmet i could see the relief, then he gave me a sideways look and grin & was off zipping down the road, i'm thinking about a nap we ran into kevin coming back to see where we were at the pavement, kevin was going to hit some more roads similiar to where we'd been mike was going back to camp dan had bailed at the last stop, (street bike with ricky racer tires, i would have too) i considered a right and barborsa .... when we pulled out we knew where 2 were going the rest of us hadn't commited we crossed the bridge
kevin took a right on the old road, the rest of us went towards nc back into hot springs gas situation hadn't improved