Moto Ride (Buena Vista, VA)

Just another exciting outing following the fearless leader!



With the 4th of July weekend approaching, and some much needed PTO on the calendar, I rounded up a group of four friends for a ride to Dyke, VA to camp at our friend's land near the Blue Ridge School. Just days before, though, two of our buddies had to cancel. Luckily, I noticed some riders on RVAmotorycles looking for company on a ride to roughly the same part of the state, so we filled the vacancies with two new riders and decided to meet on Thursday afternoon at Aw Shucks.



From there, we headed west along a route Whit had devised, taking us along some winding roads until we reached our destination just west of Charlottesville.



There, our two new friends headed back to town while Whit and I continued on to Dyke.



Our destination was our friend Chris's tiny home on his family's land. We relaxed there for a moment before dropping some of our gear and aiming our sights on some lesser-traveled gravel roads nearby.



We definitely found what we were looking for - loose gravel, mud, and rocks.



I did drop the Vstrom once, but it only suffered minor injuries and was back in action in no time.



The next morning Chris treated us to a breakfast of omelettes & coffee before we headed west in search of more adventure. We began our ride on the Skyline Drive, following it from Swift Run Gap to Rockfish Gap.



From there we departed the Blue Ridge Parkway and used lesser-known roads to complete our ride toward Buena Vista, VA.



One of the highlights of the day's ride was a section of "road" that traversed some farmland. It showed up on Google Maps, but was obviously a section of road no longer in use. It was funny looking down to see our GPS right on track, while knowing we were simply riding through a field.





As the temperatures rose, we chose to seek out a watering hole to cap off the day's ride. We landed on a section of the Piney River.



All that was left at that point was to head east again, with a few more great sections of road between us and home.

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