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Originally Posted by frostbitevinnie  My tentative plan: Leave St Cloud 5/23, noonish, and arrive outside of Rockford, IL or as far as I can get that day (500 mi). Spend the night in a podunk town in IL. Try to make Deals Gap on Sat 5/24. I am not sure of the exact miles from here to there, probably in the 1400 range so sat would be a 900 mi drive. Long drive so maybe another stop over at my aunts house in So. Fulton, TN. That would be another 500 to 600 mi from Rockford. Then make it on Sun. 5/25. Play it by ear from there. Probably leave on 5/29 or 5/30 and head back home.
So if this schedule fits anyone in my five state area lets hook up and find some twisties!! |
If you take all freeways it's 1025 miles from St Paul to Gatlenburg, so add 50 miles from St Paul to St Cloud, and another 30 miles from Gatlenburg to Deals Gap, and you are looking at about a 1100 mile trip, if you really want to you could do it in one day.
Both times I rode down there, I took two days for the trip down, and found that I was able to get far enough on the first day that it only took me half the second day to make it the rest of the way, and I was able to get a short ride in after I checked into my motel.
On one of my rides back I did it all in one day, but it took 18 hours, and I was quite tired by the time I got home.
I wasn't planing on going down there again this year, but lately my son has been showing some interest in making the trip, so if he can afford it, I might be able to go along with you. Put me down as a maybe.