Our audio equipment failed today so we cannot share much video from the trail.
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2023 TAT Day 6
2023 TAT Day 5
Today was a phenomenal day! We lost a wallet, a phone, a charge pack, and a power cord. Oh, and the TAT also proved to be fabulous once again also. We met many new friends and heard part of their story. The reason it was a phenomenal day is because we saw once again that…
2023 TAT Day 4
Tale from the trail Today we met Tim and Mark in Creston NC when we stopped for food at a small roadside store. We had seen several large sections of land covered with small, newly planted pine trees. They told us the trees we saw were Christmas trees privately owned by four local growers…
2023 TAT Day 3
Tale from the trail: Today we met Chuck. He was riding a BMW R1250 on a day ride out of his home state of Tennessee. He brought a tent along with him in case he decided to stay out longer. He was a machinist and had risen in position over the years until he was…
2023 TAT Day 2
It was a good day on the trail and we found a great lunch spot along the Greenbrier river. The Greenbrier Grill and Lodge has very good food and we enjoyed seeing the ducks that hang around the restaurant. We stayed at The Pines Campground near Newcastle VA and were able to get some laundry…
2023 TAT Day 1
We traveled east on the trailing edge of several storms which caused flooding and tree damage. We had to cross through a flooded stream at one point and then a few miles later we encountered a large tree which had come down across the road and taken down a phone line with it to within…
2023 Unloading and preparing to ride
A tale from the trail: We met Bill (left) and Keith (right) at breakfast. Keith has a nephew who road a bicycle around the coast line of the United States from east to west. He made it to Northern California and intended to ride further north into Canada, but no. He met a girl and…
2023 Arrived in Ripley W
As we were leaving our hotel in Illinois this morning we met a group of of 4 motorcycle riders from Chicago. They provided our first ‘tale from the trail’. There were finishing up a 10 day trip through Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee and other southern states. As they travelled they collected a gallery of ‘Rock Star…
2023 Ready to go
We are packed up and ready to travel to the starting point of the TAT in West Virginia.