Search results

If you want to explore the best back roads and bike dirt roads in the Texas Hill Country, you have to buy this book. I bought this 7 years ago. I have used it 3 times. I just pulled it out of my bookshelf to use for this trip. It is written by a guy who has ridden his bike throughout the Texas...

JUST DRIVE. I just decided to get away for the weekend and do only one thing: just drive. I want to get away and drive on the roads less traveled. Enjoy the open roads, nature and stop and smell the flowers along the way. Leaving on Thursday and returning on Sunday. I will spend every single...

Wow. $15,000 for that? I would be surprised if anybody would buy it for more than $5,000. By the way, I am in Houston. Where is the truck so I can stop by one of these free days since one is stuck at home most of the time with nothing to do. Let me know location so I can stop by when I have...

Page 1 has my starting odometer. This is my ending odometer after filling up gas today. So, my trip was 2,264 miles and it cost me exactly $426.52 in gas. I was lucky gas prices were cheaper or it would have been a lot more. And that is all for my Springbreak road trip. I hope I get the...

Finally made it back home yesterday in good time. It was a nice and simple ride. On my way home, I stopped at a cracklin place in Lake Charles. I highly recommend to try. They have smoked cracklin and seanoned and spicy. Both were my first time to trying them and they were quite good. The...

Finally done with my vacation and drove 10 hours today from Gatlinburg to New Orleans. The drive was a really nice one and I met some speed demons on the highway. Finally got to New Orleans in good time and went to the french quarters to eat and walk around. Had a good dinner and then went to...

After enjoying the drive on the Tail of the Dragon, I drove back to Pigeon Forge to spend the day. I walked around a lot looking at many attractions. Then took some pics of some attractions. Then when I was done for the day. I ate at a nice small restaurant and went to the movies to watch...

Here are pics at the end of the Tail of the Dragon at Deals Gap.

My start of the Tail of the Dragon. Along the way, there are 2 photographers who take pictures of your car and then they sell the pictures to you. You can go on their website to see your pictures and decide if you want to buy them or not. Here are my own pictures from their website. I may...

Yesterday, I was so tired I did not update. But have some time now to update as my vacation has come to an end. The first part of the day was spent running the Tail of the Dragon. It was a thrilling ride.

And just to show how Gatlinburg looks from bird's eye view. Then I took these shots. Took the first one. Then turned my drone 90 degrees and took the next one. Turned another 90 degrees and took another. Then another 90 degrees and took the last one. Shows a big picture of a good aerial view...

Today was a busy day just walking around town and shopping on main street in downtown Gatlinbirg. I got to attend Moonshine tasting for my first time. I don't drink alcohol so this was quite an adventure. You pay $5 and you get to taste 13 different moonshines. My experience was not good since...

These are pictures I took on the Cades Cove Scenic Loop.

Checked out of the hotel at Cherokee today and drove in the rain to Gatlinburg, making a few stops along the way. This morning was cold, wet and a beautiful scene in the park, with a lot of Elks laying in the grass. Next stop was at the Baptist church And then a few pictures I stopped for...

It was time to get back on the road for 1 hour 30 minutes drive back to the hotel. Tomorrow morning, I will check out of my hotel in Cherokee and drive 1 hour 30 minutes to Gatlinburg where I plan to spend 3 nights.

After visiting the house, I drove to the winery. Got in line. The line was long and it took me 25 minutes before I was shown to my table. Good thing I met these complete strangers while in line. A couple meeting each other for the first time and a very friendly family on a road trip. They were...

Some of the panoramic pictures that I took that were of a lot more interest to me.

When you get your ticket, they ask you if you want to park and ride the shuttle or you want to park closer to the house and walk to the house. Choose to park and walk. It is so much better and the walk from the parking lot to the house is only 300 yards which they say it is a 8 minutes walk. It...