Day
4
Monday,
September 3, 2018
We
have 38 members on 24 bikes and 2 cars.
Largest number in years. Gary
suggested we break the group into 3 riding groups; all going to the same
locations just leaving 4 or 5 minutes apart in order to make it easier to hear
on the radio and get through intersections.
It worked great. Gary led group 1
with 8 bikes, Jimmy led group 2 with 8 bikes and I led group 3 with 8 bikes. I almost always had group 2’s tailgunner in
view but even if I couldn’t hear Gary I could hear Jimmy and he could hear me
and information could be relayed. Went to
so many places today, Cumberland Gap State Park, Wilderness State Park and
toured a “station” which is much like a fort, talked to a gun smith and learned
about how a young boy would become an apprentice to a master tradesman and
after about 7 years become a journeyman in that trade. Learned a lot about Daniel Boone and the
other frontiersman who traveled the gap heading West. We rode miles of great roads past some small
log cabins, houses of white clapboard and beautiful brick homes. Hay fields mowed and baled; rolling hills and
mountains dotted with cattle; mountains with stark stone faces etched with time
and areas over taken with the Kudzu vine making the mountainside look lush and
green like a thick carpet and covering the trees making them look like large
monsters. Our last stop was the Natural
Tunnel and we took a chair lift to the bottom where we found a large natural
tunnel carved through a mountain by the running river over many years. A train track runs through the tunnel that’s
how large it is. The river – just a
small stream of water now that a child could wade in. Arrived back at the hotel around 6 just time
enough for a quick dinner at the Huddle House next door and then to our meeting
for the evening at 7 PM. Up to the room
by 8:30 for a hot soaking bath to ease the aches. About 157 miles.
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