Trying to burn vacation so I don't lose it and saw a three day stretch of sunny and temps in the low 70s on the BRP so ditched work to ride back in October. That's one of my favorite sayings, ditched work to ride! So the obligatory history picture, on the way out I was following the route of Lee's retreat from Petersburg and really needed to pee so here's a Covid related historical pee stop.
I spent the first night in Wytheville, VA. I have a friend from VDOT that lives out there and has a small cattle farm on the side. When I got up with him he was getting in some hay after work and told me to come over. I came over and got a pair of gloves and got in the barn and was helping stack hay bales. I stepped on a board and went through up to my hip on one leg. Luckily I had my riding pants on. If you don't want to see a picture of a guy with a big bruise on his leg look away now......
Downtown Wytheville has a cool office supply store with a giant pencil outside. Not the best picture, was dusk.
The rest are Parkway pictures. The first is the pedestrian bridge that runs under the parkway where it crosses the James. On my last day I rode from the north end down to here and back, about 130 miles total of fresh new pavement.
A few leaves changing but not a lot.
Was great to get out and the fresh pavement was awesome. Not sure how many more times I can get out that way anymore this year but it was fun while I was doing it.
I spent the first night in Wytheville, VA. I have a friend from VDOT that lives out there and has a small cattle farm on the side. When I got up with him he was getting in some hay after work and told me to come over. I came over and got a pair of gloves and got in the barn and was helping stack hay bales. I stepped on a board and went through up to my hip on one leg. Luckily I had my riding pants on. If you don't want to see a picture of a guy with a big bruise on his leg look away now......
Downtown Wytheville has a cool office supply store with a giant pencil outside. Not the best picture, was dusk.
The rest are Parkway pictures. The first is the pedestrian bridge that runs under the parkway where it crosses the James. On my last day I rode from the north end down to here and back, about 130 miles total of fresh new pavement.
A few leaves changing but not a lot.
Was great to get out and the fresh pavement was awesome. Not sure how many more times I can get out that way anymore this year but it was fun while I was doing it.
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