48 States: Day 6, Deal’s Gap, North Carolina & Tennessee

Rode the infamous “Tail of the Dragon” today and looped back along the Cherahola skyway.

The dragon is fun but short, and crazy low speed limits. But it was my favorite type of road: empty and dry and no cars. Only 2 vehicles passed me on either the dragon or the Cherahola skyway.

Since it was a 120 mile loop, I was able to return to the hotel for breakfast and then headed up north through the mountains. Today finally felt like a real motorcycle day instead of just interstates and cities.

Sadly I think the time zones and bad sleep were finally catching up to me, so I cut it short today and landed in Pikeville Kentucky. Probably a roughly 400 mile day. Unfortunately I was a little too early to attend Hillbilly Days.

Tomorrow I’d like to make it to Delaware but I’m not sure where, getting through that stretch of states from DC past NYC is probably going to be cruddy.