Lamonster
SpyderLovers Founder
My wife has been really stressed out here lately because she's starting nursing school next week and she worried she bit off more than she can chew. I'm sure she'll be just fine but her days of going on rides with me are numbered for sure. Next week she agreed to ride to NC about 100 miles or so to a friends house warming. I thought today would be a great day to go hunt down a gift and to give my wife a little stress relief.
Now you got to understand that before the RT my wife had no desire at all to ride with me. She still has a very real fear of motorcycles and she told me today that's she's even fearful on the RT but she knows this is about has safe as you're going to get and the fact that I've been all over the country several times on the Spyder and have always made it back is a big help. I'm thankful that's she's willing to face her fears and try and have a good time with me on the Spyder.
Before we left I took the time to setup the new Cardio Scala Rider G4 headsets that I bought a few weeks ago. I've been using them to listen to my iphones MP3 player hooked into the RT but I had yet to try it with rider to rider. That took a little time getting everthing setup but it turns out that was one of the best things I could have done. It was really great to talk to each other going down the road and to point out things that before we would just talk about after we stopped, or not. I got to say that this was money well spent and I like that they are Bluetooth and we weren't cabled up. This made the trip so much better.
I took the trailer so I could throw whatever we bought in it. Good thing I did because it wouldn't have fit in the RT very well.
It was pretty hot and my wife likes to drink a lot of water and the last trip we took was bad because she just couldn't keep enough water in her. This trip she dug out the Camelback she uses when she backpacks and that was the ticket right there. She still got a little hot but at least she had plenty of water this time.
We decided to take the back roads toward Gatlinburg and look for some wood carvings that might make a nice gift. My friends live in a Log home and that would go great in there. As we drove on the 321 my wife said something about this little place called the Apple House and how she always wanted to check it out. It's right off the road and you really can't see much so I decided to pull on in. We got a great parking spot and I was pretty blown away by the place.
They had a little candy store and a pretty good little market with all sorts of good stuff to eat. Pretty much anything to do with apples were there along with other fruits and vegetables. It's a great place to bring the wife, they love that kind of stuff.
They have a great place to eat and I can see this being one of my new stops to bring my biker friends. We both had the special and it was BBQ sandwich, fries, apple cider, apple fritters with apple butter, a drink and the best peach pie I've had in a long time all for about 7 bucks. I was so full I didn't even eat dinner afterward.
There's plenty of seating for a large group.
This was our view out the window.
One of the things I love about East TN is the people. We stopped by and met Peggy and looked at her wood carvings. They have some really cool stuff in there and as we got to talking with her she told us some great stories. Peggy and her husband Billy are the real deal Hillbillies. They were good friends with a famous Hillbilly named [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xi5a-QdF6U"]"Popcorn Sutton"[/ame] and we talked about Moonshine and how things were when they were growing up around these here parts. Chris and I both enjoyed that stop.
As we went to leave she saw the RT and said she loved it and that's what her and Billy wanted to get. I gave her a SpyderLovers card and told her to look us up if they had any questions. If nothing else we made some new friends today.
This is Peggy and my wife Chris.
This is Peggy's husband Billy. Now is that a Hillbilly or what?
Billy wasn't at the store but Peggy said he was down at the Pow Wow just about a mile down the road. We hadn't been to a Pow Wow so we decided to stop by. We did see Billy but he looked like he was pretty busy with folks so we didn't bother him. We did take time and watched some traditional Indian dancing, that was pretty cool.
They had some really cool wood carvings there. Check this out.
After that we headed up the road to another place I've always wanted to stop at and that's where we found the perfect gift. I'm not going to post it because I don't want to spoil the surprise but I'll post a picture of it next week when we make the trip to NC.
Here's the place we stopped. They had a lot of cool stuff to look and this is typical for East TN.
We had a great ride home and the whole trip was only about a 100 miles but it was a great 100 miles and that's a good run for the wife. I hope we can take more trips like this when Fall comes. :doorag:
Now you got to understand that before the RT my wife had no desire at all to ride with me. She still has a very real fear of motorcycles and she told me today that's she's even fearful on the RT but she knows this is about has safe as you're going to get and the fact that I've been all over the country several times on the Spyder and have always made it back is a big help. I'm thankful that's she's willing to face her fears and try and have a good time with me on the Spyder.
Before we left I took the time to setup the new Cardio Scala Rider G4 headsets that I bought a few weeks ago. I've been using them to listen to my iphones MP3 player hooked into the RT but I had yet to try it with rider to rider. That took a little time getting everthing setup but it turns out that was one of the best things I could have done. It was really great to talk to each other going down the road and to point out things that before we would just talk about after we stopped, or not. I got to say that this was money well spent and I like that they are Bluetooth and we weren't cabled up. This made the trip so much better.
I took the trailer so I could throw whatever we bought in it. Good thing I did because it wouldn't have fit in the RT very well.
It was pretty hot and my wife likes to drink a lot of water and the last trip we took was bad because she just couldn't keep enough water in her. This trip she dug out the Camelback she uses when she backpacks and that was the ticket right there. She still got a little hot but at least she had plenty of water this time.
We decided to take the back roads toward Gatlinburg and look for some wood carvings that might make a nice gift. My friends live in a Log home and that would go great in there. As we drove on the 321 my wife said something about this little place called the Apple House and how she always wanted to check it out. It's right off the road and you really can't see much so I decided to pull on in. We got a great parking spot and I was pretty blown away by the place.
They had a little candy store and a pretty good little market with all sorts of good stuff to eat. Pretty much anything to do with apples were there along with other fruits and vegetables. It's a great place to bring the wife, they love that kind of stuff.
They have a great place to eat and I can see this being one of my new stops to bring my biker friends. We both had the special and it was BBQ sandwich, fries, apple cider, apple fritters with apple butter, a drink and the best peach pie I've had in a long time all for about 7 bucks. I was so full I didn't even eat dinner afterward.
There's plenty of seating for a large group.
This was our view out the window.
One of the things I love about East TN is the people. We stopped by and met Peggy and looked at her wood carvings. They have some really cool stuff in there and as we got to talking with her she told us some great stories. Peggy and her husband Billy are the real deal Hillbillies. They were good friends with a famous Hillbilly named [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xi5a-QdF6U"]"Popcorn Sutton"[/ame] and we talked about Moonshine and how things were when they were growing up around these here parts. Chris and I both enjoyed that stop.
As we went to leave she saw the RT and said she loved it and that's what her and Billy wanted to get. I gave her a SpyderLovers card and told her to look us up if they had any questions. If nothing else we made some new friends today.
This is Peggy and my wife Chris.
This is Peggy's husband Billy. Now is that a Hillbilly or what?
Billy wasn't at the store but Peggy said he was down at the Pow Wow just about a mile down the road. We hadn't been to a Pow Wow so we decided to stop by. We did see Billy but he looked like he was pretty busy with folks so we didn't bother him. We did take time and watched some traditional Indian dancing, that was pretty cool.
They had some really cool wood carvings there. Check this out.
After that we headed up the road to another place I've always wanted to stop at and that's where we found the perfect gift. I'm not going to post it because I don't want to spoil the surprise but I'll post a picture of it next week when we make the trip to NC.
Here's the place we stopped. They had a lot of cool stuff to look and this is typical for East TN.
We had a great ride home and the whole trip was only about a 100 miles but it was a great 100 miles and that's a good run for the wife. I hope we can take more trips like this when Fall comes. :doorag:
