I came to Point Pleasant the way you often come into river towns, by riding on a road that follows a river on the left and a railroad on the right or vice-versa. In this case, West Virginia Route 62 had been ordinary for miles from outside of Charleston toward Poca, the home of the poca dots. Route 62 is a narrow gray ribbon through the north-eastern side of a Kanawha River … [Read more...] about The Shawnee, George Washington and the Mothman All Slept Here
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Partner Content: Visit Greater Summersville, West Virginia
A long weekend getaway rejuvenates and inspires, especially when the rugged beauty of the Mountain Lakes Region surrounds you. Sparkling clear Summersville Lake, West Virginia’s largest, is within six to eight hours’ drive of 60 percent of the urban U.S. population, making it the ideal one-tank trip. You’ll find the lake easily via the major interstates; this is your exit from … [Read more...] about Partner Content: Visit Greater Summersville, West Virginia
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, without a job or obligation to anchor or call me back home. I wanted to be overrun with … [Read more...] about Sunflowers & sunsets: The road to West Virginia
A Dragon’s Back: and a Quest to Find Seven Covered Bridges
Motorcycles can often feel like time machines. They encourage you to explore roads that once were main thoroughfares but are now sleepy backroads. They take you along winding paths filled with old barns, small towns and sometimes century-old covered bridges. Feeling a call to revisit Virginia’s Back of the Dragon this summer, I vowed to explore some side roads I’d ignored on … [Read more...] about A Dragon’s Back: and a Quest to Find Seven Covered Bridges
Touring the two Virginias: Seeing new life in the Bluefields
A few days earlier, a buxom, wet and nasty bitch named Helene came our way up from Florida, uninvited and unwelcomed, and for many people in many places throughout our divine mid-Atlantic mountains, life would never be the same. The hurricane absolutely devastated several communities, large and small, mostly in North Carolina and Tennessee, but also in far southwest Virginia. … [Read more...] about Touring the two Virginias: Seeing new life in the Bluefields
