The majority of the time I’ve spent on this planet has been alone. There are many reasons for this. One such is that it’s extremely difficult to find other people who enjoy doing things the way that I do. Especially for as long as I do. I do things somewhat differently when I’m leading a ride than I do as I wander and wonder alone. Many times have folks said they wanted to go on a “Ronman Ride”. Very few ever want to go again. Therefore I reached the point that I just rode alone.
Don’t get me wrong, I love riding alone. Well two or three years ago I met some people who kept telling me they’d like to go with me on these rides. I would always say we’d see. Finally they were so persistent that I told them OK. We had an experiment. I told them that I was going to take them with me on a ride where I would stop for photographs or points of interest just like I was alone. After the ride we would see if they were good with what went on and I would see how I handled the company. Well lo and behold they actually got it. This was no lip service I’d been hearing for the past couple of years.
This year over the Fourth of July weekend we decided to take a little overnight journey to East Tennessee mainly on back roads. I think we succeeded. In these two days we covered roughly 850 miles all but 48 of which were on back roads. The beauty of Tennessee and North Carolina kept us amazed as we soaked in all the scenery that we could.
From natural wonders such as this tree that has an eye of a needle to an old general store that intrigued us for a couple of hours. The man-made wonders along with a fantastic “Rock-A-Billy Diner” filled us with laughter and goodness.
This is but a taste of the things we saw. There’s more to come so keep watching. I promise that I won’t keep you in suspense for too long.
Ride Safe,
Ronman




