Christainsburg to Lexington, Virginia

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Tuesday, Sept 30, 2003, 7:30am EDT

"......Jack Frost nipping at your nose .."

Another 7:30 departure, and the temp is 36 degrees. I am bundled up with everything I can get on. I look like the Pillsbury Doughboy. Wouldn't you know it. A mile after we leave the motel, there's a 2 mile down hill - 30MPH. Figure the wind chill on that. Two hours later my toes thaw. Are we having fun, or what?
By mid morning it's warm enough to shed the extra clothes, and the remainder of the day is pleasant.
The route was from Christiansburg to Lexington and provided us with a variety sights and challenges. The only real challenge was working our way through the Roanoke-Salem area - traffic, stop lights, left turns, pot holes. Lesser men would have faltered. Let's see...what else? Oh, we rode next to the interstate on a frontage road for ten miles, passed through some picture postcard rural settings, and rode over the world famous Natural Bridge of VA. What a country!
Quadman is feeling guilty about the last two days being too easy. So,tomorrow we hit ourselves on the thumb. Standby for a report on masochists riding the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Wise

Sag Says:
bbowe sez........my temp at departure was 72 degrees with a heated seat - don't know what quadman is "whining" about! Hilite of my day besides sagging was meeting Michael and Veronica at Natural Bridge - they know where beautiful downtown Ball Ground, GA is. They now live in Knoxville, and it helped that Mike was born in Canton, GA which is a 'suburb' of Ball Ground. On to Charlottesville tomorrow which is my last stop with the "J" riders. Hope they make the "grade" to the Parkway!" See ya tomorrow evening................bb