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Seems I have been hearing that question a lot lately. Graham invited me on a trip up the the Smokey Mountains with him and his dad last weekend. We left thursday Oct 27 and drove up to the Southern tip of the Great Smokey Mountain National Park, namely the Fontana Dam.
It was a rather eventful (too eventful) trip. This was a trip to ride motorcycles by the way, not go fishing. We got in about lunchtime on Friday and went riding all day.

Here are the only pictures we have (right now), from killboy.com:

My bike is the red one on the outside, then graham’s dad’s and graham’s. Thats the Smitty’s electric van in white. The bikes, except from graham’s are all a bit more banged up now.

Saturday morning exactly 2 miles from the campsite I laid my bike down. The temperatures were in the 30s at the campsite so the roads were cold, and in the shade of the trees, and my tires were very cold. Yeah, in FL we don’t get accustomed to those little details. Couple cold tires with my lack of experience and you get me sliding into a guardrail. I was doing around 20-30mph tops, so it was a rather non-spectacular crash but there were tons of foliage to send flying as the leaves are turning this time of year. They kinda looked nice on the bike… So we spent the day getting the gash in my engine cover patched up. A little help from the locals, mostly Wheeler, and the ingenuity of graham and his dad, and I was riding later that night. Sorry for the lack of pics, but my camera is still in Tennessee… getting to that part. Leathers are a bit scuffed up but I was fine, a good lesson to learn about safety gear. So we went riding all day again on Sunday, and then most of the day on Monday until Graham’s Dad had an accident, which unfortunately landed him in the ICU at UT Medical Center in Knoxville. Last I heard Nov 6 about 5PM, he was out of ICU in a regular room and recovering well. But you can certainly call graham and pass on your concerns and monetary donations for the hospital bills or bike repair Graham is still up there, i flew back last wednesday which is why i have been MIA for so long, no cell coverage in the mountains. I’m sure you have many questions as to what happened and further status of graham’s dad, but that really isn’t information i feel comfortable putting on the net, so if graham wants to he can comment it up, otherwise, ask him when making your donation. Also bug him about taking my camera out of the van and snapping pics of the foliage and stuff.

Aside from that, been catching up on school and projects, i’m buried, and yeah, apparently when i’m MIA that long my voicemail fills up to max capacity, i need to get on that too. :-/ hope all is well with everyone.

special thanks to ucf football team for kicking ass this season. you guys played really well last saturday, and ucf pd, thanks for not shooting any students!