Wine Touring: Across the Cherohala to Tsali Notch Vineyards
The mountains seem to cradle this bucolic valley. Beyond the orderly rows of vines, the blue-gray band of the Southern Appalachian Mountains fences off this area of east Tennessee, protecting it. Cherishing it. Briefly interrupting this peaceful scene, a group of nearly a dozen motorcyclists arrive at Tsali Notch Vineyard near Madisonville, Tennessee, after crossing…
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Casta Rica boy,” my gray-haired grandfather said to me. “That’s where you need to go.” Our group of riders from the Blowing…
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Tri-City Touring: A dozen reasons to ride East Tennessee
A bolt of lightning strikes the ridgetop as a thunderstorm stalls atop Sam’s Top, which is part of the towering border between…
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Cherohala Skyway: Nostalgia and furtive glances at the past
Nearly 30 years ago, an old friend introduced me to motorcycle camping. During those early years, the two of us came together…
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Something about the secluded valley draws them here, as it has for millennia, to the confluence of Spring Creek and the French…
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