Ridin'Ard (The h is silent)

I’m a little behind. Ok, today is Thursday.  I forgot one thing from Tuesday. We’re on a country road and Jaron slams on his brakes. I swerve and also slam on my brakes and fishtail a little with ABS kicking in. A dog is running in the street. Jaron has already had a run-in with a dog in our neighborhood. Anyway, we’re both sitting there waiting for the dog to get out of the street, and I’m thinking, I hope the owners saw this.  Yesterday, on Wednesday, we hit up Skyline Drive. It was foggy and then cleared up and we had a glorious time for about 20 minutes. We kept going and took a lunch break at Big Meadow, the halfway point. It was foggy AF so we decided to take the next off-ramp to Luray. In all, we spent 4 hours on Skyline including breaks and did 3/4 of it — about 75 miles.  We were bummed out about the fog. It was raining, so we were less enthusiastic about camping and decided to head to Daddy’s in WV and see how far we got. I texted this plan to Daddy. We were g...

This week we were going to go on our last big trip of the year. But Tropical Depression Nate is pouring rain down so we are delaying our departure by a couple of days and hoping that we will still be able to go. Nate is a Cat 1 storm, but some news sources are calling him a hurricane. It’s a fast-moving storm so is coming inland quite a ways before dissipating. Daddy is exactly in his path and will get 2” of rain today. We were going to leave today and arrive there tonight, but no mas.  This trip (if it happens) will be a mountain trip. We’ve been south, we’ve been north, so now we’re going west. Julie will be on her red G650GS adventure bike, and Jaron will be on his blue F800R which he turned in to an off-road bike during repairs. We are planning to do Skyline Drive and go camping for part of our trip and visit Daddy.  We spent 2 hours Saturday night cussing and mounting Julie’s side cases. My rear top case holds 52L and the side cases hold 33L each. Yeeaahh, buddy.  ...