Our plans originally had been to go to Shiloh but the weather forcast of tornados changed our minds and we headed for The Dragon.
The Dragon is Hwy 129 where it goes from TN to NC. 318 turns in 11 miles. And it swarms with motorcycles. After almost getting loast we did find 129 and the rain found us. But good gear does pay on a MC trip and the First Gear suits did their job once again. The rain stopped shortly before we got to the Dragon. But loaded as we were it was a cruise not a race over the mountains.
There is a MC motel/campground at Deals Gap where I have stayed before and the tree of shame is pretty awesome. And it constantly grows thanks to the crotch rockets that keep crashing on the Dragon. OH, no cops this time. Last time their was a cop every 2 miles.
Decided not to stay at Deals gap because there was a Corp of Engineers campground at the dam about a mile or two down the road. Saved money, always good.
AT the campground the ground was hard so we didn't use stakes. If we had know what was coming that night we would have.
Ran into a guy that is in his second year of hiking the eastern mtn trails, very neat.
That night there were very high winds and rain but both tests stayed up. Though we each got a little rain inside. Since we weren't staked down it was able to blow up the rain fly.
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