Well, I am finally getting around to posting this trip report Mike and I made to the Outer Banks in JUNE!!!! My bad!!! Mikes brother Steve and sister-in-law Kris invited us for a few days on the outer banks where they were staying in a house on the 4x4 section of the beach--if you are not familiar with this it means ---NO ROAD ---you actually travel the beach to get where you are staying and mind you -definitely KLR material-some of these people live here year round and do this on a regular basis....So we left on June 12-tuesday morning--we are going to two lane all the way down being we are on the KLR's. We kinda motored on without very many pics the first day because we wanted to get as far into NC as possible because on the second day we needed to make low tide to get to the house by 12:30 a.m.---the family that was there all had 4-wheel drives but said it was still challenging with all the deep sand rutted out so suggested low tide would benefit us. Mike sat with the map and picke droads for us to take and he did a bang-up job--especially since we hadn't ridden most of them before...we left home and got over into the mountains of WV-got on 39 and rode it to Marlinton and continued thru Warm Springs where we stopped at this pull off to change our Jackets for like the third time that day---cool-reg.jackets-got hot-went mesh-rained-rain gear-hot again-mesh-you get it-we were like a couple of teenage girls changing all the time when we stopped at the pull off in Warm Springs VA we had this waterfall lookout--it was gorgeous
we rode on to 42 and then got on 43--this was absolutely the coolest rode I have ever been on with our bikes yet---twisties-switchbacks and even some whoops---miles and miles of it down thru VA. We haven't done the dragon but it couldn't compare to this I wouldn't think...I saw some awesome sights I would have liked to take pics of--but that low-tide schedule loomed over us so I guess we will just have to do that road again sometime:evilgrin0007: from 43 we went to Alta Vista -hit 668 then 501 into NC and then got on 158 east. Now we were close enough to the beach we looked for a room to hit the hay----I wasn't going to get into this story but I really would have rather slept in the hay!!!!! I will try and keep it short and move on to the positve side of the trip...got a room in a nice big motel,hotel whatever-probably a couple hundred rooms, pretty new--unloaded 2 totally packed out KLR's--we had tent and sleeping bags(for trip home),clothes etc. Settled in ,ordered a pizza--I go to take a nice hot shower and the tub is full of dirty water--OK--I'll hit the drain knob--no luck!!! I tell Mike we can't take showers because the tub is full of water--he says "let it out" I tell him "you don't understand-it won't drain and there is a dirty ring around the tub" he comes in and just drops his head and goes back to the room phone and calls the desk--" do you want to shower tonight or on the morning ??they ask him--what makes the difference we think:mad0235: :49: they give us another room and Mike goes to get the key--he checks the new room on his way back and comes in and says you won't believe this "I checked the new room they gave us and the bed is unmade ,towels are on the floor and the commode isn't flushed!" I am starting to go into menapausal hotflash hell mode now--he can tell---he knows not to let me go to the office-so back he goes and they come with him to give us a new room this time-they go check it out together-everything is in working order and clean-ya still thought about just putting your sleeping bag on top of the bed and sleeping in it though. I caught the pizza guy in the parking lot as I knew they wouldn't find us now!! The next morning when we checked out they gave us another 10.00 refund.....Ok,that will pay for breakfast since we skipped their continental breakfast they offered----can't imagine why!?!?!? This was the only bad happening on the trip..
we rode on to 42 and then got on 43--this was absolutely the coolest rode I have ever been on with our bikes yet---twisties-switchbacks and even some whoops---miles and miles of it down thru VA. We haven't done the dragon but it couldn't compare to this I wouldn't think...I saw some awesome sights I would have liked to take pics of--but that low-tide schedule loomed over us so I guess we will just have to do that road again sometime:evilgrin0007: from 43 we went to Alta Vista -hit 668 then 501 into NC and then got on 158 east. Now we were close enough to the beach we looked for a room to hit the hay----I wasn't going to get into this story but I really would have rather slept in the hay!!!!! I will try and keep it short and move on to the positve side of the trip...got a room in a nice big motel,hotel whatever-probably a couple hundred rooms, pretty new--unloaded 2 totally packed out KLR's--we had tent and sleeping bags(for trip home),clothes etc. Settled in ,ordered a pizza--I go to take a nice hot shower and the tub is full of dirty water--OK--I'll hit the drain knob--no luck!!! I tell Mike we can't take showers because the tub is full of water--he says "let it out" I tell him "you don't understand-it won't drain and there is a dirty ring around the tub" he comes in and just drops his head and goes back to the room phone and calls the desk--" do you want to shower tonight or on the morning ??they ask him--what makes the difference we think:mad0235: :49: they give us another room and Mike goes to get the key--he checks the new room on his way back and comes in and says you won't believe this "I checked the new room they gave us and the bed is unmade ,towels are on the floor and the commode isn't flushed!" I am starting to go into menapausal hotflash hell mode now--he can tell---he knows not to let me go to the office-so back he goes and they come with him to give us a new room this time-they go check it out together-everything is in working order and clean-ya still thought about just putting your sleeping bag on top of the bed and sleeping in it though. I caught the pizza guy in the parking lot as I knew they wouldn't find us now!! The next morning when we checked out they gave us another 10.00 refund.....Ok,that will pay for breakfast since we skipped their continental breakfast they offered----can't imagine why!?!?!? This was the only bad happening on the trip..