Outstanding ride today...

We took off this morning headin' toward The Great Smoky Mountains. All the years I've lived around here and today was my first time to check out Fort Dickerson .One of the Union forts built to protect the southern approaches to Knoxville, Fort Dickerson is now part of a city park. Confederates under Gen. Joseph Wheeler attacked the place Nov 15-16, 1864, but were turned back.I could'nt find any information about numbers killed at this battle









My ridin' bud Greg checkin' out the rifle barrel of the cannon.



Went through Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg just to check out the women Took Little River Road over into Cades Cove and then hit The Foothills Parkway.Here's a few pictures from Little River Road and The Foothills Parkway.








We was takin' a break in the shade when the dude on this bike came rolling in wanting to know if we had any tools he said " My air-filter fell off going down the road " We hooked him and got him rollin' again. I like the color combo on this bike and think it would look good on a Valkyrie.







The plan at this point was to see if we could get the dude guardin' US 129 to let us through so we would'nt have to go all the way around to The Cherohala Skyline to hit The Dragon. He said " Hell No , No Way "....He claimed they had one lane open for awhile to let the cops and meat wagon in but last thursday they blew the whole side of the mountain off into the road he said " It's got more rock in the road now than it had when the rockslide happened " . It was a beautiful day in the hood and perfect for motorcycling in the mountains.

Joe, I Like that yellow valkrie. Nice pictures too.

tods58 wrote:Joe, I Like that yellow valkrie. Nice pictures too.

Thank you In one month ( June 10 ) I've owned this bike for 12 years and it's been on the Dark Side for 11 of those years.







Picture below taken at the resting place of Ronnie Van Zant ( Lynyrd Skynyrd ) in Jacksonville , Florida

Nice pics Joe.

Another great ride. Cant wait to share the wind with you brother. See you friday

See you out there
Smokey

[quote="Smokin'joeVRCCDS#0005"]We took off this morning headin' toward The Great Smoky Mountains. All the years I've lived around here and today was my first time to check out Fort Dickerson .One of the Union forts built to protect the southern approaches to Knoxville, Fort Dickerson is now part of a city park. Confederates under Gen. Joseph Wheeler attacked the place Nov 15-16, 1864, but were turned back.I could'nt find any information about numbers killed at this battle http://www.discoveret.org/kcwrt/sites/sd-text.htm Joe this url tells a lot about the earthen forts around knoxville.

[quote="tods58"]

Smokin'joeVRCCDS#0005 wrote:We took off this morning headin' toward The Great Smoky Mountains. All the years I've lived around here and today was my first time to check out Fort Dickerson .One of the Union forts built to protect the southern approaches to Knoxville, Fort Dickerson is now part of a city park. Confederates under Gen. Joseph Wheeler attacked the place Nov 15-16, 1864, but were turned back.I could'nt find any information about numbers killed at this battle http://www.discoveret.org/kcwrt/sites/sd-text.htm Joe this url tells a lot about the earthen forts around knoxville.

Thanks for the link that was a good read

smokey2255 wrote:Another great ride. Cant wait to share the wind with you brother. See you friday

See you out there
Smokey

Lookin' forward to it Larry it looks like we'll have a nice turn-out on this ride and the forecast is looking great as of now also <-----Fingers crossed ...See you friday evening in K-Town