Dual Sport Group Ride with New Friends from Alabama

What a fantastic epic day this was! It was like all these different worlds were colliding in a fantastic way! One of our VFRD street riding friends, Randy, from Alabama met these guys years ago through an Alabama dual sport group and she mentioned wanting to meet me some day. They were heading up to Maggie Valley for a ride and that's how we got the invite from Randy! On top of that the leader was none other than Josh from the ADV rider forum and pretty famous in his own right! It was just such an awesome day. As usual as soon as we hit a really great new rocky trail my Sony batteries decide to die without me knowing. I hope we all get to do this again someday! Ya'll check out Natalie and Stevens KZbin Channel, thinwater2001. They have some fantastic videos!

[@Thinwater]

It was so great meeting you and seeing the beaming on Pepperlady's face when you showed up! Thanks Jrowland for leading the ride and keeping the hype going with your personality while striking cool daddy poses like @ 04:42! Thanks for sharing the footage with us Hawk Girl! These scenes do not showcase how great of riders Hawk Girl and Jay are, her on the XT225 on level or uphill was all Jolene could deal with. Jay showed me what he had not seen in the footage later in the day when Jolene and I finally got a chance to record him even though he wasn't feeling well at the moment. I can imagine what he could do at 100%. I hope your camera and audio experiment works out like you want it to. Thanks for the time you spend putting these videos together, Pepperlady and I have been subscribed to your account for years on her account. Ya'll seemed so much like our home town folks when we found you and you were just beginning to ride Dual Sport when I was teaching Pepperlady to ride a motorcycle for the first time and Dual Sport at that. You had her at a quote to Jay "I could use two more inches of leg". Her being inseam challenged she was addicted to what you had to say about riding from that moment on. We had taken to ya'lls "Mo" statement for momentum and use it on out rides and can be heard in out TAT trip vids though they kinda suck and were the first videos I'd every tried to really edit. I was talking to her on the way home, "They say don't ever meet your Celebrity Icon, that it'll ruin them for you, how was it?". She said, "They're wrong she is great I love her", said really fast and short! It'll take me a while to get to this one and through all the footage, I hope you enjoy it when it comes. Thank ya'll so much!

[@HawkGirlMistyV]

Thank you guys so much for all the kind words! Words can’t even describe how much we appreciate people like you two! Thank you so much and we can’t wait for the video!

[@WillysPerformanceCycleCtr]

Nice ride! You all rode through some beautiful scenery on nice roads. The overlook was great. Too bad the batteries went south when you got to the fun stuff! Y’all have fun and ride safe.

[@nataleepepper4935]

It was great meeting you! We had a great time riding with you. I was waiting to see how the footage of that creek crossing would look after you told me how hight the water went :) It turned out pretty good! You could even hear my "WHOOO" because the water was so chilly! Look forward to riding with you again one day.

[@HawkGirlMistyV]

Absolutely! I can’t wait!😊

[@waterdude21236]

Awesome ride, what was the camp ground there? loved the music,, reminded me of the old country i strated stopping grapes and making wine, lol thanks for the great videos

[@HawkGirlMistyV]

It was the mile high campground off of the Blue Ridge Parkway.

[@therusticcollectionebaysto7028]

New sub ! Liked 🙏😅😉😉