Tail of the Dragon 2018
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That's a gorgeous home. Not bad for the price too.
I'd love to do the Tail. That part of the country is beautiful.
Awesome write up Jim!
Agree with so much said here. It’s a real experience to travel down there and enjoy it.
The wife and I wrapped up a similar trip last month but different areas covered.
This thread has inspired me to do a write up of our adventure as well so folks can see some of the other awesome things to do there.
I’ll just leave this pic here:
Agree with so much said here. It’s a real experience to travel down there and enjoy it.
The wife and I wrapped up a similar trip last month but different areas covered.
This thread has inspired me to do a write up of our adventure as well so folks can see some of the other awesome things to do there.
I’ll just leave this pic here:
I’ve tried to get interest in this, but it never gains any traction. I’ve driven a lot of the roads down there like you, and it just blows away anything home can offer.
Ehhhhhhhhhhhhh, you said you were gonna try for this year and that never happened
I'm 100% down for next season tho.
It happened 3 times lol [emoji23]
But your right my wife’s surgery stopped a lot of the things I would have done this summer. Glad she was healed enough for this trip.
3 times WITHOUT us
In my defense I only had the vette with me once. My trips where centered on buying property.
I think for most of us, ANY roads in the mountain area's are better that what we have here.
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Nice writeup, Jim. Indeed it was a great trip! I don't have anything to add really.
Definitely a trip that needs another.... tho I gotta say, I'm really tempted to trailer down next time. While the Cayman survived, and I was surprisingly comfortable.... but I was tired of dodging pot holes and pavement cracks by the time we got home. JRZs and 700# springs don't make for that great of a roadtrip vehicle.
We logged just over 2,000 miles, including the loop down to Atlanta. We rented an SUV while in Atlanta (Kia Sorento - actually not all terrible of a ride).
I think my favorite was that road we hit as a group on Friday. Loafer's something? Not as tight as Deals Gap but flowed better, better vistas overall.
And I still think that the locals down there just overall drive weird. I got really tired dealing with people who would speed up (speed up 10+mph) just to not let me merge... only to fall off 10-20mph once I forced myself in anyways.
Definitely a trip that needs another.... tho I gotta say, I'm really tempted to trailer down next time. While the Cayman survived, and I was surprisingly comfortable.... but I was tired of dodging pot holes and pavement cracks by the time we got home. JRZs and 700# springs don't make for that great of a roadtrip vehicle.
We logged just over 2,000 miles, including the loop down to Atlanta. We rented an SUV while in Atlanta (Kia Sorento - actually not all terrible of a ride).
I think my favorite was that road we hit as a group on Friday. Loafer's something? Not as tight as Deals Gap but flowed better, better vistas overall.
And I still think that the locals down there just overall drive weird. I got really tired dealing with people who would speed up (speed up 10+mph) just to not let me merge... only to fall off 10-20mph once I forced myself in anyways.
Due to the distance, this is a vacation type trip for sure. A 4 day trip at a minimum. Two days down and two days there. The longer the trip the better.
If you want to make it a long weekend type trip you have to do what Panda said and fly down and rent a car. But I am sure many of us would like to drive our own cars down there. Especially since our cars are usually more modified for this than a rental car. But gets you a quick trip to try it out.
I know they offer a Tail "Taxi" service now. Where you go on ride alongs with a driver in different types of cars. I heard they might have a small amount of sports cars to rent as well. So could be options for some people who would like to meet a group down there as well.
If you want to make it a long weekend type trip you have to do what Panda said and fly down and rent a car. But I am sure many of us would like to drive our own cars down there. Especially since our cars are usually more modified for this than a rental car. But gets you a quick trip to try it out.
I know they offer a Tail "Taxi" service now. Where you go on ride alongs with a driver in different types of cars. I heard they might have a small amount of sports cars to rent as well. So could be options for some people who would like to meet a group down there as well.
Just about any "cruise" within a single day (out and back) of Chicago pretty much sucks.
Sure you can go up through Kettle Moraine, some beautiful stuff up there, or out towards the MS river, Starved Rock, or Galena - but it's like 1% of what you get down south. There's really no comparison.
I think in order to pull off a "group" you have to get guys that just flat-out like *driving*. Preferably with people that don't ask to stop every 90 miles to pee like my beloved......
I love roadtrips. Especially roadtrips where I'm solo in the car. I flip back and forth between total silence (just engine noise, tire noise, windows down), my music, audiobooks, etc. As an introvert I love the solitude.
But 8-12 hours in the car is definitely a LONG day. And you have to plan for 2 FULL days of travel. One down, one back. Then however many days you want to spend in the middle. IMO it's really a week long trip.
For us it worked out well because we are looking at moving to Atlanta. It made for an easy excuse to just divert the extra 3 hours. If we had no intention of moving down there, it would've been a harder sell to convince the wife to go.
Your car isn't also on full monoball suspension.
Having ridden in the Vette tho, I can agree - it's an excellent road trip car. Cushy soft seats (with heat and ventilation), and a decent stereo.
TBH after that trip I started trying to justify adding 300lbs of stereo equipment to my car. Two 4.5" speakers in the door just ain't cutting it for anything but background noise on short trips.
We all noticed it. Bizarre, really. Nobody wanted to let you "in front".
The times I'd roll back (after seeing them speed up to close the gap) I'd tuck in behind them.... and they'd slow back down. Inevitably it always happened when it was a line of trucks in the right lane, or a construction zone... to where I'd have to step it up a lot to catch back up to the pack.
Annoying. I figure it's more the locals hatin on the yankees coming down to their area in their expensive cars. *shrug*
If you drive down I fell it has to be a 6-8 day trip. So you get to relax and enjoy the time down there.
We also drive down to Nashville and stay the night there. It is a 7.5-8 hour drive. Then leaves a 4 hour drive to the Tail. It breaks up the driving some and spending a night out in Nashville is fun. Well if you like music, bars, and what not.
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