The bug has bit...MGX 21

[Luap McKeever]

Luap, if you do come to DC, feel free to stay at our place, We've got plenty of room, and live near Mount Vernon, just south of DC proper. Bill Hagan is about 2 hours North West of me.

Thanks for the offer!

[Ncdan]

Really?!? Must be better "riding" south of Kitty Hawk.

Happy Easter from the dunes of Corolla

Hey Kev. We start the adventure by getting to Cedar Island the first day from home, Winston-Salem NC. Next morning take the 2.5 hour Ferry ride to  Ocracoke Island. Eat breakfast at the Pony Cafe, then take the whole day riding the 72 miles on #12 to Nagshead. That 72 miles goes through several small fishing villages. There are several places where you will have the ocean on one side and the sound on the other and you are riding on a 100 yard strip of land. From nagshead it's around 40-50 miles until you reach the end of the public roads. The filthy rich keeps the road from being continued to Va. come on down and we will ride it sometime.

[s1120]

Hey Kev. We start the adventure by getting to Cedar Island the first day from home, Winston-Salem NC. Next morning take the 2.5 hour Ferry ride to  Ocracoke Island. Eat breakfast at the Pony Cafe, then take the whole day riding the 72 miles on #12 to Nagshead. That 72 miles goes through several small fishing villages. There are several places where you will have the ocean on one side and the sound on the other and you are riding on a 100 yard strip of land. From nagshead it's around 40-50 miles until you reach the end of the public roads. The filthy rich keeps the road from being continued to Va. come on down and we will ride it sometime.

We went for the first time last year and we are hooked!!  Stayed in Nags head for a few days, and it was much too short of a visit!!!  Cant wait to get back.

[Kev m]

The filthy rich keeps the road from being continued to Va. come on down and we will ride it sometime.

I'm sure it's beautiful, but sounds short, slow, and straight.

I much prefer riding in the mountains and Jeeping here in the OBX.

Most of our neighbors here don't come across as filthy rich though I do see a number of those houses (a lot of them are rented, some as wedding venues).

The lack of paved roads up to the VA border help keep the population and even visitor numbers down and probably protect the place.

There's a guy behind us with a Fat Boy. He has to trailer it to a road to ride it. Not sure how to react to that but I think I'd have a dual sport if I lived here full time.

Well anyway, driving out onto the beach with the family in a bit.

Excuse the hijack BullD...

[twowheeladdict]

I'm sure it's beautiful, but sounds short, slow, and straight.

I agree, but once in a while it is nice to ride slow while taking in the views.  When I am riding the curves I don't know what is of to the sides because I am concentrating on the next curve. 

[Kev m]

I agree, but once in a while it is nice to ride slow while taking in the views.  When I am riding the curves I don't know what is of to the sides because I am concentrating on the next curve.

Sure I get that. But maybe one small stretch and not multiple days to go 100 miles.

Where I'm sitting right now drinking beer, North of the end of the pavement, it's only 123 miles to Ocracoke according to Google Maps. That's like a lazy Sunday ride or a lunch date with Jenn not a trip (to me).

Hell I think I inserted 150 miles of blue ridge in the middle of a 600 mile day last year. But I would drive the OBX in a Jeep in a heartbeat. And I do, relatively often (though mostly the upper end).

[Ncdan]

Sure I get that. But maybe one small stretch and not multiple days to go 100 miles.

Where I'm sitting right now drinking beer, North of the end of the pavement, it's only 123 miles to Ocracoke according to Google Maps. That's like a lazy Sunday ride or a lunch date with Jenn not a trip (to me).

Hell I think I inserted 150 miles of blue ridge in the middle of a 600 mile day last year. But I would drive the OBX in a Jeep in a heartbeat. And I do, relatively often (though mostly the upper end).

It takes us all day to do the 70+ miles from  Ocracoke to Nags Head cause the guys I ride with must stop and drink beer in every fishing village in the OBX. 😂

[Bulldog9]

We used to go to the outer Banks when I was high school to surf & stuff, and back in the 90's we rented a house for a family reunion that you had to use 4wd to get too. This was before it had the 'cool' moniker OBX. They are great Beaches, but I much prefer the Southeast Beaches of Long Island. The Stornello is my first street bike with 'off roadish' ability, so I've never even thought of riding there maybe time to reconsider. Soooo many places to go...

The MGX purchase & accompanying 'geegaws' have delayed the side bag install project for the Stornello, but maybe if I put ADV tires i could tahe the MGX... 

Its great to see you investing in the fam Kev, wonderful days to live and love your kids. My youngest is 26 and im convinced that the time spent when they were young and the bonds built have kept us close and connected. The wars has meant I've spent as much time (or more) deployed since 2002, but the bonds and love and time invested then pays off today. Part of me misses those days but now my kids are having kids, and the cycle is revisited with the next  generation. none of my kids ever picked up the motorcycle bug, but I'm already starting to brainwash the next generation :-)

Kudos to you brother.... No hijack, this is what matters.

I'm sure it's beautiful, but sounds short, slow, and straight.

I much prefer riding in the mountains and Jeeping here in the OBX.

Most of our neighbors here don't come across as filthy rich though I do see a number of those houses (a lot of them are rented, some as wedding venues).

The lack of paved roads up to the VA border help keep the population and even visitor numbers down and probably protect the place.

There's a guy behind us with a Fat Boy. He has to trailer it to a road to ride it. Not sure how to react to that but I think I'd have a dual sport if I lived here full time.

Well anyway, driving out onto the beach with the family in a bit.

Excuse the hijack BullD...

[Kev m]

The house we've always stayed in (here in the 4wd section) belongs to two good friends (mentors in life and, for Jenn, in medicine). They built it about a decade ago now. We watched their kids grow up and now they're both grown with careers and the first grand baby was born about two months ago. So now we're watching our mentors start the grand-parent thing.

Life is good... And the beach is calling again this morning.

[Ncdan]

The house we've always stayed in (here in the 4wd section) belongs to two good friends (mentors in life and, for Jenn, in medicine). They built it about a decade ago now. We watched their kids grow up and now they're both grown with careers and the first grand baby was born about two months ago. So now we're watching our mentors start the grand-parent thing.

Life is good... And the beach is calling again this morning.

👍
It's refreshing for us old guys to watch young folks  dedicate themselves to their families. Makes me wish I had did some things differently.