Between 705 & 1200 SQ/FT A trip back from the edge.

[harley jim]

Did you see the tree of shame.

 

[Toothaker]

I had to Google that. That's funny!

 

[harley jim]

I like Mels Diner also, it's near Garetts muscle car museum

 

[xtremek]

I missed the Tree of Shame. I knew of it, but to be honest, I was so stoked from the drive, I forgot all about it. I makes me wish I had a bike, but at the same time, glad I don't. And the drive along the River is gorgeous. Spent about 15 minutes driving along it.

 

[harley jim]

If you come the backroads and stay off the interstate it is like that most of the way to my house. I took a friend with me tonight to Reliance and he said he felt like he was on the Dragon.

 

[xtremek]

I've noticed most of the back roads around here are like the "Tail".

 

[xtremek]

Just so you don’t think I have no class, here are pics of our trip to the Van Gogh Experience. In case you thought it was a fluke, Robin and I went to the Knoxville Botanical Gardens. Almost 50 acres of beauty set in downtown Knoxville. I wish I had a few million to give to them, the place has so much potential.

 

[xtremek]

I feel like this is a Jeff Foxworthy moment. “You might be a redneck if”……..you’re on vacation at a nice condo, and you’re out in the parking lot fixing your

 

[mybigwarwagon]

Work on it where you can

 

[xtremek]

Back to the Dragon. To get to the Dragon, I took Lookout Parkway. I thought it was twisty, boy was I in for a rude awakening. I did stop at one of the gorgeous overlooks. I think this is a pic of some of the tallest mountains in the range.

 

[xtremek]

Just so you know I wasn’t pulling your leg, here are the pics. On the way down, this Harley and I were really closely matched. I let them pass, and ended up chasing them down to, and along the Tennessee River. On the trip back, this slow poke Civic took several miles to get the hint I wanted to move a lot quicker than he was willing move.

 

[mybigwarwagon]

I find a few love taps helps them understand.

 

[xtremek]

We did a waterfall tour the other day. We hit the Cataract, the Sink, one I can’t remember the name, and the Grotto. The walk to the Grotto was a bit of a hike, but we made it, and here’s the proof.

 

[jollygreengiant]

LOL at your group pic. You can certainly tell who is excited to be there and who isn't.

 

[mybigwarwagon]

Beautiful place.

 

[xtremek]

LOL at your group pic. You can certainly tell who is excited to be there and who isn't.

I posted the same pics on FB and a family friend said, "the girls look fully engaged as usual". To be fair, it was a long, steep hike from the car to the trail head, then another 1 1/2 miles to the falls, so close to 2 miles to get there.

Beautiful place

It was very much so. The little falls was the best part in my opinion, and no one went to look at it.

 

[harley jim]

Wasnt the falls the whole purpose of the hike.

 

[xtremek]

Wasnt the falls the whole purpose of the hike.

Yep, but we had no idea how tough it was going to be. You could tell who in the family was in shape, and who wasn't.

 

[cbacres]

Yep, but we had no idea how tough it was going to be. You could tell who in the family was in shape, and who wasn't.

Good pics! We love hiking to water falls like those.

 

[harley jim]

I used to like hiking but the back wont let me any more. This area is covered with hiking trails, hidden water falls, blue holes, and such.

 

[mybigwarwagon]

Terrible when you have to work out to go on vacation.

 

[xtremek]

Back in the day (my 40's), I wouldn't have even broken a sweat. Now the joints tell me I'm pushing it. Of the 6 of us, only two of us don't work out on a regular basis. She was hurting pretty bad. It didn't help the one sister was being impatient and rude.

 

[xtremek]

Finally got the cylinder heads back together. Also got the intake cleaned up well enough for the rattle can. If I don’t get rained out today, it’ll start going back together. I hope to have it together so I can use it this weekend.

 

[jon72vega]

Finally got the cylinder heads back together. Also got the intake cleaned up well enough for the rattle can. If I don’t get rained out today, it’ll start going back together. I hope to have it together so I can use it this weekend.

Looks like brand new, Kirk!

 

[xtremek]

Looks like brand new, Kirk!

Thanks Jon, but I can only wish. If I had the time and money (the money I spent buying a certain pick up LOL) ,I'd have had someone put in hardened seats. And I'm guessing the guides are fairly well worn. I just hope it gets me through a few years before we put an LS or Cummins in it.

 

[harley jim]

Detroit would be my choice. Lol

 

[xtremek]

We tag teamed this repair. Robin ground all of the rivets off, then I punched them out. Replaced the rivets with nuts and bolts. Then we went down to the neighbor's place and cut some of the hemp. We're having issues figuring out how to get this down efficiently. We got almost 1/3 of it done before I said I'd had enough of my Strouty/Uncle Willie/Bob Heine soaked in sweat imitation. Woke up this morning and everything was sore, including my scalp.

 

[mybigwarwagon]

You are still dry unless you are leaving a small lake anywhere you stop moving.

 

[xtremek]

Does a small creek count? Since I never really stopped moving.

 

[xtremek]

In Indiana for a hemp thing. Got here yesterday and did a little sightseeing. Had to go to IMS. This is the buggy that took me down the rabbit hole that eventually lead to my love of F1 and MotoGP. I was surprised it sports a stock bug motor.

And this has become one of our things, municipal gardens/conservatories. The Garfield Conservatory/garden was fairly small, but it was very pretty. More than I would want to weed.

 

[harley jim]

You need one of those buggys, there are several similar to that on the road down hear, they look like fun.

 

[xtremek]

Don't tempt me. I had a pan buggy (Fiberglass bodied thing) back in the day. If I do it again, it'd be another pan buggy. They are fun.

 

[harley jim]

I have always wanted a manx style buggy but there rare around here.
You still in Indiana

 

[jon72vega]

Nice pictures.
Speaking of buggys, Berrien Buggy back in the day turned out alot of parts, turnkey vehicles, etc.
They were right down the road from me on Old US31.

 

[mybigwarwagon]

I got rear ended in front of IMS. I was in a company van that I had picked up exactly 24 hours earlier.

 

[Strouty]

Don't sweat too much....

All this hemp reminds me, we do a lot for our SOs.

 

[xtremek]

Don't sweat too much....

All this hemp reminds me, we do a lot for our SOs.

Ain't that the truth.

I have always wanted a manx style buggy but there rare around here.
You still in Indiana

You can still buy that style brand new, the parts or turnkey. Place out in Cali makes them. They're not cheap

Nice pictures.
Speaking of buggys, Berrien Buggy back in the day turned out alot of parts, turnkey vehicles, etc.
They were right down the road from me on Old US31.

They were going great guns until the US military got involved, if I remember right.

I got rear ended in front of IMS. I was in a company van that I had picked up exactly 24 hours earlier.

That wasn't the big accident was it?

 

[xtremek]

Forgot to answer your question HJ. We left yesterday a little before 2.

 

[mybigwarwagon]

That wasn't the big accident was it?

No it was minor. Traffic was completely stopped, and I stuck the van in park, and took my foot off the brake. The guy behind me thought I was moving and floored it. HE only moved about 2 feet before he hit me. It bent the bumper of the van up where the back door wouldn't open. My boss told me to do whatever I had to in order to make the van usable since I would have had to go several hundred miles to get another one. I got home and beat it with a sledge hammer. It was like that till I quit and turned the van back in.

 

[harley jim]

What did you learn at the hemp thing