Blue Ridge Parkway
Posted: April 5th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: 50StateRide, BlackBerry Post | 1 Comment »The season hasn’t started so there were almost no cars for my entire 75 mile stint (no more than 20, and never any traffic). I felt the most connected to my bike yet. Going up and down through the gears as the road twisted and turned all in the shadows of leafless trees on the verge of returning to their full green glory got my blood pumping and reinforced the reason I decided to aim for the sunset on two wheels. The fluttering of the sunlight passing through the shadows created a mesmerizing strobe-like effect that is certain to disappear as soon as the foliage returns. I feel lucky to have had it to myself, to take at my own pace, to soak up the beauty.
The Blue Ridge Parkway comes from a WPA-era project that created a non-commercial two-lane road that follows the ridges of the Smoky Mountains for a little less than 500 miles from Virginia to the western end of North Carolina.
So I just realized that part of my moonlit ride to GA was on the Blue Ridge Highway. That’s what I was driving when I saw the huge harvest moon. I can only imagine what beauty the daytime sight must hold!!