Update for 2020

Hello everyone! Hope you are all doing well and staying safe. What a crazy year 2020 has turned into! Don and I are hoping to do a week long trip to South Dakota in mid-September. Of course that depends on what happens with the pandemic in the next couple of weeks. We don’t have as much time this year which may be just as well. There won’t be any overnight ferries this trip so “socially distanced” is how we generally travel anyway.

As far as personal updates, I went back to work full time for the USDA in January and vacation time is a little tight this year. Don, on the other hand, finally retired this spring. He already seems to be getting a little bored and I expect he will pick up some work again after the riding season is over. Don also bought a new bike in December, a brand new 2019 V-Strom 650. He sold the old yellow Strom with 116,000 miles and still running great. We spent the Winter months outfitting it. I’ve updated “The Bikes” page if you want to check it out.

We did make a quick trip down to the mountains of North Carolina in June. Spent a couple of nights at the Blue Ridge Motorcycle Campground, our “home away from home”. Western North Carolina is a fantastic area. If you like scenic drives, the Blue Ridge Parkway is a must!

The Blue Ridge Parkway is America’s longest linear National park, and the most visited, running 469 miles through Virginia and North Carolina. Construction began in 1935 by the Civilian Conservation Corps as a public works project. The parkway was not completed until 1987, 52 years later. There are 25 tunnels in North Carolina and the Linn Cove viaduct, basically an elevated bridge snaking around the mountain top.