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John H.[_5_]

On Tue, 03 Nov 2015 11:12:31 -0500, wrote:

On Tue, 03 Nov 2015 06:50:24 -0500, John H.
wrote:

On Mon, 02 Nov 2015 22:37:23 -0500, wrote:

On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 18:16:29 -0800, Califbill billnews wrote:

I remember the movie last of the Mohicans, filmed near Ashland. Looked
like beautiful country.

That whole Smokey/Blue Ridge area is very similar, all the way from
Georgia up to West Virginia. You pretty much have to be a botanist to
tell the difference in the vegetation. It is really nice up there.
That was a great motorcycle ride from DC up into the GW forest.

Are you talking about 211 up and over the mountains? That used to be a fun ride, but
now the traffic is so miserable that the joy is gone. The Skyline Drive would be a
nice ride if they'd raise the speed limit by about 20mph. That 35mph limit is no fun,
and it's enforced.

The Blue Ridge Parkway is a fun ride. The speed limit is 45, but the cops will let
you go 10 over with no trouble

This would be the late 70s I have been here for over 30 years.

Back then it was a fun ride from Alexandria down to 211 and up over the mountain.
Hell, we'd do it several times just to get the pegs scraped!
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