{"id":166,"date":"2009-06-23T13:15:52","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T20:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/?p=166"},"modified":"2009-06-23T19:44:27","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T02:44:27","slug":"ride-to-eat-ride-to-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"Ride to eat, Ride to ride."},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Fact is, I\u2019m really hungry for some GOOD<\/span> BBQ, and REALLY<\/span> curvy roads on the motorcycle.\u00a0 <\/span><\/o><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/o>With very little prompting from a buddy, the GPS routing software came out and a plan came together.\u00a0 <\/span>How about a quick run from our homes in Florida, up to the original Dreamland BBQ<\/a> in <\/st1>Tuscaloosa, <\/st1>Alabama for lunch, then on to <\/st1><\/st1>North Carolina via Nashville\/Knoxville to ride Tail of the Dragon<\/a> and Cherohala Skyway<\/a>?<\/o><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/o><\/strong>This week, I\u2019m in final stages of organizing, prepping the FJR1300, and route planning for a motorcycle trip with my buddy Jim Sullivan for next weekend.\u00a0 <\/span>Jim\u2019s a running buddy, who helped me out with my first Western States 100.\u00a0 And we both happen to ride motorcycles. <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/o>\u00a0It\u2019ll just be a short Sat\/Sun weekend cruise, about 1700 miles total, to earn both IBA SaddleSore 1000 and Bun Burner 1500 certificates<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>That\u2019s 1000 miles of riding in under 24 hours, and 1500 miles in under 36 hours.\u00a0 <\/span>Will the craziness ever end Tamara asks?\u00a0 <\/span>No, I really don\u2019t think so Honey.<\/p>\n

<\/o>My FJR is a mile munching machine, and I know Jim\u2019s BMW is also. I just mounted a new front tire, have my GPS wired, all the fluids changed and it\u2019s ready to go.<\/p>\n

<\/o>We leave early Saturday from Orlando\/Clermont, taking back roads through the Big Bend\/Panhandle of <\/st1>Florida, then up to <\/st1><\/st1>Tuscaloosa, <\/st1>Alabama.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

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Our First Destination\u2026<\/o><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dreamland(history<\/a>) is a little hole in the wall place, a little off of I-20 where Tamara and I used to stop during our trips back and forth from <\/st1>Huntsville, <\/st1>AL to <\/st1><\/st1>Monroe, <\/st1>LA.<\/p>\n

<\/o>\u00a0<\/v> <\/v><\/v><\/v><\/v><\/v><\/v><\/v><\/v><\/v><\/v><\/v><\/v><\/v><\/v><\/v><\/o><\/v>\"John<\/a><\/p>\n

John \u201cBig Daddy\u201d Bishop Founder of Dreamland in 1958.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This was before they had franchised locations all over the Southeast, it was the one and only Dreamland.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Never took long to figure out what you would order, as the menu consisted of Ribs and Whitebread(Sunbeam I believe, in the plastic wrapper).\u00a0 <\/span>That\u2019s it.\u00a0 <\/span>When your order came, you had a rack of ribs, a complete loaf of Sunbeam bread, a roll of paper towels, and a Coke or Beer.\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Messy, fattening, always packed, but great food, great atmosphere, great people.<\/p>\n

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To finish the 1000 mile in a day mark\u2026<\/o><\/strong><\/p>\n

After the stop at Dreamland, we\u2019re back on the bikes for the next 500 plus miles, taking a long zig-zag route to <\/st1><\/st1>Knoxville, <\/st1>TN.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/st1>Birmingham, <\/st1>Chattanooga, <\/st1>Nashville, <\/st1><\/st1>Knoxville.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>WHEW!<\/p>\n

Time to rest.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/o>\u00a0Second Destination\u2026<\/o><\/strong><\/p>\n

A few hours break, and we\u2019ll be hitting the Dragon and Cherohala Skyway.\u00a0 <\/span>This is some of the best motorcycle riding to be had anywhere<\/strong>.\u00a0 <\/span>http:\/\/www.tailofthedragon.com\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\"Cherolala<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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Talk about a roller coaster<\/strong>!\u00a0 <\/span>This is going to be QUITE different than the straight <\/st1><\/st1>Florida roads I\u2019m normally riding.\u00a0 <\/span>I used to travel\/camp all over this area on my KZ1000 long ago, can\u2019t wait to get up there and ride again.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/o>After that, it\u2019s down through <\/st1><\/st1>Atlanta, and interstate highway all the way back home.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>If all goes as planned, we\u2019ll be back home well before dark on Sunday, with 1700 miles and 5 states under our tires.<\/p>\n

<\/o>\u00a0Hurry up, weekend!\u00a0 <\/span>I\u2019m ready to go!<\/p>\n

\"Yamaha<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/o>\u00a0Yamaha FJR1300<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fact is, I\u2019m really hungry for some GOOD BBQ, and REALLY curvy roads on the motorcycle.\u00a0 With very little prompting from a buddy, the GPS routing software came out and a plan came together.\u00a0 How about a quick run from our homes in Florida, up to the original Dreamland BBQ in Tuscaloosa, Alabama for lunch, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}