Contributed by new WMA member Howard Meiseles.Click on the picture to blow it up to full screen. You can see several more of Howard's trip shots by going to the Photo Gallery. Just click on the link to the right to go and see the more than 80 shots from members around the world!
Thanks so Much Howard....I love the story about your ride....and the great pictures.
Robert,
Ellen and I love to ride together. The pictures enclosed were taken in 2006 during our 3 week vacation ride to the eastern provinces of Canada. We were living in Atlanta, Georgia at the time and our itinerary took us to Portland, Maine, a ferry ride to Nova Scotia where we rode for three days, a ferry ride to Price Edward Island for another three days of riding and onto Quebec, Montreal and to the Canadian side of Niagara Falls. From there, we were off to our real destination at Burlington, Vermont for the BMW Motorcycle Owners annual gathering. After the gathering, we traveled back to Georgia via a stop in NYC for dinner and theater.
Upon leaving NY, we decided to travel one of the great motorcycle roads in the eastern United States, the Blue Ridge Parkway. The ride on the Parkway is amazing. The Blue Ridge was authorized in the 1930s as a Depression-era public works project, the Parkway was more than a half-century in the making. It was the nation's first, and ultimately longest, rural parkway, connecting Shenandoah National Park in Virginia with the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina. The Parkway winds for 469.1 miles (755 km) through the famous Blue Ridge Mountains, a major mountain chain that is part of the Appalachian Mountains. There is no fee for using the Blue Ridge Parkway and other than tour buses, commercial vehicles are prohibited. The parkway was built so that it appears that the road grew out of the ground instead of being place on top of it. There are no billboards or commercial establishments other than those provided discreetly by the National Park Service. I recommend that if you are on the east coast during the late spring, summer or early fall that you ride this road.
Regards
Howard Meiseles
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