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Sunflowers & sunsets: The road to West Virginia
When I started riding motorcycles more than 15 years ago, I planned to go from a small town in Massachusetts to the furthest parts of the opposite coastline in Oregon and California. That was always the goal: to go as far and to see as much as was possible without a map, without a deadline,…
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A ride to remember: Nicki & Aaron’s Blue Ridge elopement
There are moments on the Blue Ridge Parkway when time feels suspended — when the light hits just right, the fog rolls in low and soft, and the…
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Regrowing roots: The return of riders to their dirty beginnings
Once upon a time, many a young motorcyclist cut his or her riding teeth off-tarmac. Tykes on smaller bikes burbled over bumpy, leaf-strewn, or gravely terrain, honing riding…
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Exploring southwest Virginia’s rock churches
Bob Childress was on a mission from God. Robert Walter Childress, born in 1890 in a remote area of Southwest Virginia near Ararat, deplored what he saw in…
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Waterfalls, museums and twisty roads: Exploring the spirit of Franklin, NC
The usually smooth hills of the Blue Ridge begin to grow steeper and sharper as U.S. 64 twists toward the Cullasaja Gorge. Temptation lures my attention to the…
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Exploring southwest Virginia’s rock churches
Bob Childress was on a mission from God. Robert Walter Childress, born in 1890 in a remote area of Southwest Virginia near…
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Waterfalls, museums and twisty roads: Exploring the spirit of Franklin, NC
The usually smooth hills of the Blue Ridge begin to grow steeper and sharper as U.S. 64 twists toward the Cullasaja Gorge.…
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Solitude is gratitude: Happily disappearing to Snowbird Mountain Lodge
There’s a certain feeling you get when you enter Graham County, North Carolina. For most “outsiders,” whether it be nearby East Tennessee…
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