2010 Grand Tour of VA Rides
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Some of us have been participating in this year's Motorcycle Grand Tour of Virginia. Motorcycle Virginia (http://www.vamotorcycletour.com/) puts on the tour in which participants buy a "passport." Sponsors are lined up, then passport holders travel to the sponsors to get the passport stamped. At the end of the season, stamped passports will be turned in for chances on prizes. (Mostly, it gives us places and somewhat of a reason, as if we needed one, to ride.) Recent rides have been to get stamps, hence we're calling them "Stamp Rides." Some pictures of those rides follow. (We haven't been very good at getting "sponsor" site pictures, these are more candid shots. Go to the link above for good pictures of the tour sponsors...) Click pictures to enlarge, click it again to close it.) ** August 2 Jazzman and Maria complete the tour. ** ** August 14 Fatback completes the tour. **
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April 25 to Massanutten, Luray
May 29 to Lynchburg, Smith Mountain Lake, etc.
June 5&6 On Saturday, north to Outlanders, Flint Hill, Winchester, Shendandoah Caverns. Then on Sunday, south to Natural Bridge, Bedford and the Parkway.
June 14 Fatback went solo to Appomattox, Farmville, South Boston, VIR, Martinsville. (The club plans to take this ride Saturday, June 19.)
July 25 Fatback, Eddie and Becky, Big and Mrs. Show and Randy to Explorer Park, near Roanoke.
July 31 Fatback, Eddie, Big Show and George through the fog to Paintbank to the Swinging Bridge Restaurant then to Falling Springs waterfall near Covington. Big Show had a battery cable issue that was luckily quickly resolved.
August 14 Fatback gets his last stamp at Morton's BMW in Fredricksburg, then lunch at the landmark Allman's BBQ with Jazzman and GHB.
