Day 2 10/28/2021
Odometer – 23,305 – 23,513 —— 208 Miles
Floyd, VA – Laurel Bloomery, TN
We woke up at sunrise loaded up the bikes and while doing that I knocked my bike over with the luggage and broke my plastic hand guard on the left side. Casualty number 1 of many more to come on the trip! We got right back on the Blue Ridge Parkway for about 100 miles or so until we had to get off to head towards Pawels house! Watching him ride and getting some coaching from him was pretty cool. He was a motorcycle track coach on the Expert level for a few years before he got bored and got burned out of it. Watching him ride the twisty turns after what he taught me was really lovely. He’s very smooth and so much goes into riding bikes in corners I never even knew existed. Glad he got to shape me up a bit before this long trip!
He bought some property in Tennessee a few months ago and pretty much owns a mountain with an incredible view. He cleared out the land and threw a RV up there until he has time to build his house himself next summer. We shot a few hundred rounds of bullets, went for a walk around the property, went for a ride through some twisty mountain roads by his house and pretty much called it a day. The weather wasn’t great as it rained most of the day with 30-40mph winds so happy we weren’t on the bike for too long