We checked out at 9:00am. Unfortunately, Vicki was not yet in. We wanted to share our thanks. Due to our discount book including their hotel, we expected roughly a 50% discount. Unfortunately, they were no longer contracted with our discount book yet she really worked on making it more pleasing to the wallet and it was so worth it.
We figured that since we were only 50 miles from Asheville, we would get to Leslie's siter's (Evelyn) house by 10:00-10:30am. Wrong! The Garmin 2730 said it would be about 2 hours, by noon. After riding through and sharing our good byes to Blowing Rock, we filled RiSTa up and hit the BRP south!
We made a pit stop at the top of the southern part of the Blue Ridge Parkway, Mt. Mitchell @ 6684 ft above sea level, the highest point east of the Mississippi river (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Mitchell_(North_Carolina) .
We got to Evelyn's around 12:30pm and visited with the family. I had originally considered removing the rear wheel there but Mark talked me out of it as their was no need. Leslie took the girls to get their nails done as I took Patrick, to look at motorcycles so I could grab a pair of sunglasses (my Oakleys were getting all torn up from pressing them into the helmet). We all went to dinner, Pizza, and Leslie and I left the house around 7:00pm. Our goal was to land in Maggie Valley, recommended by dad as a good stopping place. We had originally laid out the route to finish the BRP from Evelyn's to Maggie Valley but instead, we went via 40 towards 129.
Maggie Valley, NC (http://www.maggievalley.com/). We rode through the quiet town until we almost reached the end and pulled into Stony Creek Motel, a family owned and operated motel. Here are a few fun shots...
I like this pic... See the flower bed in the back? There are concrete gnomes all over the property. I like the out house to... "Gator Room" (Florida Gators)
This is the back porch and it overlooked a pretty fast running creek that was loud enough to wake me up through the night but it was nice.
