Browsing Archive: October, 2010

Swirling Through Fall

Posted by Brienne Thomson on Sunday, October 24, 2010, In : Dualing Around the Smokies 

(Wearing the Scorpion EXO-900 TransFormerHelmet in it's 3/4-mode)

After spending an “extended stay” in Woodstock, Georgia preparing for our trip and taking full advantage of our complimentary Gold’s Gym guest pass through our hotel, we took off and headed for the famed moto-campground in Suches, Georgia; Two Wheels Only. After swirling through the red, orange and yellow leaves of autumn on the back roads of north Georgia, we arrived later than planned and decided that our late lunch ther...
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Dualing Around the Smokies

Posted by Brienne Thomson on Friday, October 22, 2010, In : Dualing Around the Smokies 
We’re finally set up and ready to roll! From Canton, Georgia, we’re going to head north to Two Wheels Only for lunch, through Murphy, North Carolina around Hiwassee Lake to Crawford Campground, up toward Tellico Plains, Tennessee for some dual-sporting and Cherohala Skyway carving. We’re then going to head north around North Carolina’s Santeetlah Lake and up around the west side of Great Smoky Mountains National Park through Townsend, Gatlinburg and Cosby, Tennessee before dual-sporti...
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Trans-Am Tennessee (and diversions): Paved, Mowed and Manicured

Posted by Brienne Thomson on Friday, October 15, 2010, In : TAT Tennessee to T's Wedding 
I left Memphis wondering how it survives. Other than the tourist dollars thrown around Beale Street on barbecue, blues and beer, in the light of day, the city was vacant; empty storefronts, empty streets, a three-story mall advertised as “the cornerstone of renaissance for the downtown area” had only a handful of vendors on the first of three floors. Either people were weary of the city’s dangerous past of panhandler harassment, a vast number of businesses were econo-crushed and bailed ...
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