 BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY RUN
Mount Airy to Hendersonville,
North Carolina
Via: Blowing Rock, Valle Crucis
Ride Highlights: The very best North Carolina has to offer;
valleys, hills, bridges, country stores, mountain lookouts --
all seen from the vantage point of one of the most scenic, enjoyable,
and motorcycle-friendly roads you'll ever ride.
Ride Overview: Without resorting to hyperbole, the Blue
Ridge Parkway is the most beautiful road ever built. It's a 469-mile
long toll-free dream starting in Front Royal, Virginia, and winding
its way through the Appalachians to slither to a close in Cherokee,
North Carolina. It's not just the road that makes this ride.
Southern people are inherently friendly, its women consistently
attractive, and the vibe is so good that on this run even Harley
riders wave. |
 SOUTHERN
COMFORT RUN
St. Augustine, Florida to Charleston,
South Carolina
(with side trip to Daytona Beach)
Via: Amelia Island, Jekyll Island, St. Simons Island,
Beaufort
Ride Highlights: The counterpart to the Pacific Coast
Highway; a level ride beside the Atlantic Ocean with glimpses
of Spanish forts, moss-draped oaks, magnolia blossoms, and the
gentility of the Old South.
Ride Overview: The Holy Trinity of the Lower Atlantic's
historic walking towns. Ride beside the seaside from a historic
Spanish colony then through Georgia barrier islands to reach
magnolia-scented, mint julep-sipping, well-preserved antebellum
towns. |
 TROPICAL PARADISE RUN
Miami Beach to Key West, Florida
(with layover in Key Largo)
Via: Key Largo, Islamorada, and Hawk's Cay
Ride Highlights: A sea level cruise that vaults you from
island to island past fishing villages, dive centers, and more
bars than you'd find at San Quentin.
Ride Overview: It's as far south as you can ride in America,
but don't expect to see rednecks, kudzu and clay roads. Miami
Beach is a cosmopolitan city, and the Keys has managed to hang
on to its independent personality despite the intrusion of major
corporations trying to tame it with huge, generic hotels. It's
a low, level, not always scenic ride but if you enjoy the sun,
snorkeling, scuba diving, and outdoor dining with no chance of
a dress code, you can't do much better than Florida's twin cities. |
 BLUES CRUISE
Memphis, Tennessee to New Orleans,
Louisiana
Via: Tunica, Clarksdale, Vicksburg, Natchez Trace Parkway,
St. Francisville.
Ride Highlights: A musical journey along the mighty Mississippi.
From the birthplace of rock n' roll to the Mississippi Delta
where raw music grew from the cotton fields and a glimpse at
the Civil War followed by old towns and lazy roads of the American
South.
Ride Overview: When you're in Memphis, you have as much
chance avoiding the music of Elvis as you would missing Jimmy
Buffett tunes in Key West. And Highway 61 through the Mississippi
Delta reveals how this landscape nurtured the blues. And New
Orleans? Well, that's a whole different story... |