I have been living in the Durham, NC area for a few (3) weeks now. This being Easter weekend and me being away from my family until we sell the house in NY, I wanted to do something, preferably with family. I have a nephew I have not seen in several years who lives in Asheville, NC, about 4 hours to the west. I contacted him and made the arrangements, we were both excited about getting together. I decided to tell my GPS to "avoid highways" and take a longer, more scenic route. If this is an example of the roads in WNC, I will be visiting often! I ended up on NC 64 and NC 9, if anyone is familiar with them. I am not a particularly agressive rider, but I never knew you could get the bike heeled over so far and have so much fun at 35mph! My nephew and his girlfriend are in a band (the Honeycutters, check them out if you like country music at
http://www.thehoneycutters.com/ ) and I got to see my nephew play, but not his band. He hires himself out to other bands in need of a lead guitarist when it doesn't interfere with the Honeycutters schedule, he's good! I got to sample just a few of the roads in the area by pure chance, I can't wait to go there for the purpose of exploring more of them! A few pics of the area, many will recognize some landmarks..
http://pix.kg/p/989396144214%3A99848768/sct