Modern Vespa

In a few days people will be converging on the Blue Ridge Motorcycle Campground for another long weekend of riding, wrenching and fellowship. Maps are enabled here in Ride Reports. More on this later.

This address worked in my Garming GPS:

59 Motorcycle Drive
Canton, NC 28716

Their phone number is: (828)235-8350

Friday routes:
morning https://goo.gl/maps/6ZQ7O
afternoon https://goo.gl/maps/df1hh

Saturday routes:
morning https://goo.gl/maps/ujrHc
afternoon https://goo.gl/maps/LVGrN

Each day we have planned a stop for breakfast but they will be roughly 1 hour into the ride depending on how fast the group moves. If you need something sooner please make arrangements to have something with you.

Remember the Fuzzy rule: We will not be on scooter time. There will be frequent stops but if every bathroom break takes and hour we will be finishing Saturdays ride on Sunday.

Now back to the maps. Participants can use the map to plot your position at anytime. One method is to email a geotagged picture to this thread.
1. Make sure geotagging is enabled on your phone.
2. Click on the @ button on the top right side of this thread. This will give you your own email that will post to this thread. What I did was to save the email address in my email contacts to make it easy to find.
3. Now when you stop for gas or the group takes a break you can snap a photo on your phone and email it directly to this thread and a corresponding map pin will appear on the map from your location so friends and family can see where you are. As Jess always warns, don't do this if you do not want your location pinpointed.

PM me if you have questions on this.

Additional help with geo tag. Thanks Cubs! http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/11712/how-to-disable-geotagging-on-your-smartphones-camera-android-iphone-blackberry/ just do enable instead of disable.

Another method is to use a SPOT Personal Tracker email notification. I have never used one but I believe you can set it up to periodically send an "I'm OK" message as well as manually sending an "I need help" message.

I am unfamiliar with this "scooter time" you speak of. 8)

This is good to know.

for those of you wondering what is scooter time. its when your at a "Ralley" and they say 9 am leaving and then first scoot actually rolls at 10:30 am.

We don't play that.

Fuzzy and I are both former military and 8 am leaving is 8 am leaving.
Not well I was putting on my jacket at 8 am and had to wipe the dew off the scoot and let it warm up and then put my helmet on, oh I forgot something back in the cabin, and can you wait a min while I go pee.

Take care of all your business and be ready to roll at appointed time.

Yes sir!

"But but.. My nail polish hasn't dried yet... I need to put on my makeup"

I have to do my hair...oh wait.

I'll paint your nails for you when we are sitting around the camp fire.

"Hey sticky pass that bottle please"

So what color are ya thinking?

I guess it is whatever color Sticky is wearing then.

I only wear french manicures with sparkles added.

Is lunch on Friday at the Still Mountain Restaurant and Pub or the Smoky Mountain Diner? Or somewhere else? And what time to you think you will be getting there? Just trying to make my plans!

The fact you know what that is frightens me.

In other words, tanks full and bladders empty.

Hot Springs is not that big so some might go to the Still or some might go to the Diner or some might just have ice cream. We will all be right downtown within a couple hundred feet. no set time for arrival but once there we send folks out to eat wherever they want and to meet back in 1.5 hrs to saddle up and continue the ride.

heck some could even go over to the hotsprings spa for a dip if they wanted.

great then sticky can paint one hand and I can paint the other. We will share a bottle of Kentuckys finest while we slop paint on you.

To be sure mapping is on.

What are you bringing?? I have some fine whiskey from across the pond and some cherry infused vodka. Tho the vodka is running lower each night - must have a hole in my flask...

I need some work done on my toe nails - I hope you and Sticky will work on me too.

I can steal my wifes Tn orange for you.

Corner creek and some 4 roses single barrel, maybe some whiskey river too.

This is correct. Just use the email token you generate for this thread and add it to the contacts for your OK message.

That'll do!! The whiskey, not the TN orange. Besides, we kicked the Vols, so I don't have to wear orange this year!

hell we'll get you so lickered up you'll want to wear orange.

I have blue, purple, silver, gold. You say the word and your toes will be looking hot

I'll take silver to match my bike However; people keep telling me that I have a headlight out... WTH!?!?!?!?!?!

...or B.O.S time...Butt On Scooter time

These guys are hard and they mean it. They don't care if you forgot something or let me see, participating in a timed event across American.. they mean they are leaving our ass.

But don't be fooled - will be cold at night and in mornings. Mountains mean unexpected rain. Go ahead and bring the warm gear!

Sent from my iPhone

Weather for Canton, NC from weather.com

I am on the map! Thank you for setting this up, Sticky!

I will probably bring my Spot too and can be followed on Dave's FollowRide.com or my Spot site.

Now I just have to find a way to get projects far enough along to be able to go.

I think I can, I think I can.....

I think this will work

Looks like an organ donor cooler. The BBQ shall be, lively.

I'm bringing a spare liver.

Don't forget your can - I think we're gonna need it.

One of my favorite palette cleansers while drinking lager. Glows with It's own warm light.

Final warning for truckers = YEEHAW for bikers!!!

My cherry vodka flask is empty. Damn thing has lost 1-2 ozs every single day of my trip. Maybe Oldasdirt can fix this - he fixes all.

Ok - where am I? Don't use the mapping. We've all (most of us) been here before

I will bring the fava beans and a nice chianti.

LOL Hannibal Strick You are going to be superslabbing I hear.

Yep. Off to late start Thursday morning so I'm looking at the easy way down.