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Healing Ride: A Father-and-Son Journey on the Blue Ridge Parkway and Beyond

The few months leading up to this ride, which included the famed Blue Ridge Parkway, had been rough. My wife was recovering from some...

Along the Midland Trail: A West Virginia Motorcycle Trip

Inspiration for a motorcycle trip can come from many avenues – perhaps by word of mouth about legendary riding destinations like the Tail of...

A Father and Son’s Virginia and West Virginia Motorcycle Tour

Contributor Nathan Cuvelier and his father ride some some epic Appalachian and Blue Ridge backroads on their Virginia and West Virginia motorcycle tour, including...

Favorite Ride: Seneca Rocks, West Virginia

It’s not until we exit Interstate 81, run through some gears on U.S. Route 48, and catch a whiff of dew-covered fields that I...

Favorite Ride: Bridges of Charleston County

Charleston, South Carolina, is a true Southern belle. She turns 352 years old this year and has quite a past. In America’s early days,...

The Long Ride

The room is dirt cheap and smells it. I've been on the road for five weeks now, mostly camping to save money, and as...

Muriel’s First Ride

She's taking her first ride on a motorcycle. Posthumously, as it turns out, but my Aunt Muriel is along for the ride, her ashes...

Riding the Georgia Triangle

Formed roughly 480 million years ago, the Appalachians are a chain of mountains that stretch from Newfoundland, Canada, down to central Alabama. Eons of...

Favorite Ride: Lapping the Appalachians

Dad’s first sojourn through the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, and West Virginia needed to be grand. Dad is a desert...

Favorite Ride: July 4th on Florida’s First Coast

The salt in the air greeted me as I pulled up to the beach for some “Here Comes the Sun” action on my Moto...

List of U.S. Motorcycle Tour Operators 2020

With international travel in 2020 looking less certain by the week (and possibly risky, not just health-wise but also with the possibility of becoming...

Land of Swamp and Sand: The ‘Other’ South Carolina Destination

Each year millions of tourists visit Myrtle Beach or Charleston, South Carolina, searching for beaches, nightlife, shopping and endless feasts of seafood. However, far...

Riding ‘Shine Country: The Tail of the Dragon and North Carolina’s Moonshiner 28

As I leaned into the corner, a stopped garbage truck appeared just ahead, hugging the stone wall on the right closely enough that I could...

17th Annual Blue Ridge Gathering

The Blue Ridge Gathering is an annual meeting of sport-touring riders in western North Carolina, one of the best regions in the U.S. for...

One Ride, 47 National Parks

Forty-seven national parks, 17,335 miles, 67 days, three flat tires, two forest fires, three boat rides, temps ranging from 31 degrees and sleet to...

Stayin’ Safe: Riding Like Heinz

Improving slow-speed stability can be fun. No, really. More than any other skill, riders tell me they wish they had better low-speed control. And no...

Riding Virginia’s Crooked Road and Blue Ridge

Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains in autumn are a place of unique beauty not to be missed, especially from the open cockpit of a motorcycle....

Riding West Virginia’s Country Roads

With the weather calling for highs in the mid-70s in West Virginia in mid-November, I knew I had to take one last ride up...

Best Dam Ride in the South: The TVA Dams of the Upper Tennessee River

Looking down on the raging torrent thundering out of the 34-foot-diameter emergency spillway below Fontana Dam, you can almost feel the ground shake beneath...

Favorite Ride: Classic Roadways of the Smoky Mountains

This morning I’m on my way to the Great Smoky Mountains to revisit three gems of the Southeast’s motorcycle-friendly roadways: the Foothills Parkway, Deals...

Favorite Ride: Swamp People and Hot Sauce

I have lived in southern Louisiana my whole life, and for this sport-touring rider, the weather from late October through April is pretty hard...

South Carolina Secrets: Throttle Therapy in the Palmetto State’s National Heritage Corridor

If the weekend arrives and I only have time for a ride of a few hours instead of days, there’s a good chance I’ll...

Relaxed Riding on the Sunshine State's Bridges and Backroads

Enjoying a motorcycle ride through Florida is an exercise in skillful navigation. The highways around Orlando and Tampa, and from West Palm Beach to...

Connecting the Curvy Bits in Eastern Tennessee

A sweeping 180-degree turn curved upward into the hills of Frozen Head State Park, and our guides, from the local Harley shop, were quite...

The Real South Carolina—Once Around The Palmetto State

Frankly, I don’t understand why a rally was ever held in Myrtle Beach. The resort town is a congested strand with residents and police...

Crystal River Riding Reboot—Motorcycle Riding in Florida

Last summer I relocated from Southern California to Central Florida, primarily to pursue a job opportunity, but in the back of my rider’s mind...

Coal, Country and Curves | Eastern Kentucky Motorcycle Tour

At a certain time of year, the bite in the night air has me working phrases such as “last chance” and “end of the...

Motorcycle Riding Along the Natchez Trace Parkway

Click here to see and download the Natchez Trace Parkway route on REVER Rod Serling’s words ran through my mind as I turned off Highway...

4 Corners 4 Kids: Traveling to the Four Corners of the U.S. For Charity

I have made some road trips in my nine years of riding, but I’ve never managed to stay gone long enough to want the...

Great Roads: North Carolina

The following is an excerpt from the article Of Ribs and Roads: Barbecue and Byways in the Carolina Mountains printed in the June 2004...

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