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Subject: [Leica] OT: Driving the Blue Ridge Parkway - share your thoughts?
From: abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)
Date: Tue Aug 22 08:14:31 2006
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Thanks, Kenneth, for sharing this! We hadn't thought of doing it quite
this way and now we have a different set of data to play with as we
plan the opening of the trip!

We'll definitely stay inside the speed limits on the parkway -- we
have been warned by a couple of folks that they mean business along
there. Which is fine by me. I know lots of curvy roads where I can go
too fast!

Adam

On 8/22/06, Kenneth Frazier <kennybod@mac.com> wrote:
> I've done the Parkway, or parts of it, several times, and lived in
> Greeneille, TN, for a while.  I think if I were going to do it again,
> and I might, I would get on at the Route 77 intersection, just north
> of Cumberland Knob, where the Parkway crosses into North Carolina.
> The drive south from there takes you to the southern end of the
> Parkway, right at I-40, just south of Asheville, and that area is
> chock full of good photo ops.    IMO, this section of the Parkway is
> far more scenic than the section north of it, in Virginia.
>
> I would plan my trip to get on the Parkway there some time in the
> morning, because the drive is relatively slow, even in a Corvette,
> and it will take you several hours to make the drive.
>
> FWIW, you'll also get to see some of the acid-rain ruined forests.  :-(
>
> Enjoy it anyway!
>
> Ken
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In reply to: Message from abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge) ([Leica] OT: Driving the Blue Ridge Parkway - share your thoughts?)
Message from kennybod at mac.com (Kenneth Frazier) ([Leica] OT: Driving the Blue Ridge Parkway - share your thoughts?)