MOTD 2018 Most liked posts in thread: Motoring Alliance Tent at MOTD

r52coop said: ↑
Hmmm, that looks like the Helmet is parked in the "designated vendor parking" . . . .

It was an inside joke as there was no designated vendor parking. I asked Barry while dealing on the tent "Are there designated parking spaces for the vendors?" to which he replied "Yes, we have vendor alley." Then you get there, ask him where this designated parking is and he says there isn't any.

 

I enjoyed putting faces to names I’ve been talking with for years. Great job with the donations for the food bank. I would have loved to join you guys for a cold one but my Doc told me to lay off anything that’d thin my blood out over the weekend. The pics that the Modfather posted of his smoker looked great.
Next year will be a shorter stay because Eli will be in his first year of middle school and his mama put her foot down. I can’t check him out for three days again. He had a ball meeting all you guys and got to know most of the vendors.
Already counting down to the next one.

EDIT: I definitely will not be wasting my money on the dyno next year. Thanks for the heads up about the altitude Dave.

 

Hey Teddy, I will bring you a cold beer. Maybe I can sit for a few hours and sign autographs for people.

 

You'll have to meet me next year, then, as we are leaving early Friday morning for home.

 

Fontana weather changes day to day hour to hour.

It could be rainy at Fontana and sunny and dry on the Dragon. I have seen it rain at Fontana and on Hellbender it drys up 1/2 way to the Dragon.

 

We'll probably leave after breakfast on Friday [around 9 or so], but actually, it will depend on the weather. Last year, with the storms, we even left a day earlier and ate the cost of the already-paid-for room. It was a mess on 129, as we had to clear 2 fallen trees on the Dragon [right after Deals Gap] to even get to Marysville. However, if we had stayed and waited for the storms to clear out, we'd have been stuck in Fontana until the trees had been cleared and the power at the Lodge restored. this year, we are bringing saws and stronger tow ropes, just in case.

So, unless you leave Atlanta at night, arrive in Knoxville and spend the night before coming in, about our only chance of meeting will be on 129 as we are heading out and you are heading in.

 

The 2 we cleared were about a mile on the hill just before the observation point. Those other trees were whipping about like serpents while we tugged and pushed the fallen ones aside enough for us to squeeze through and GTH outta there. and then, as we were starting down 129 just after leaving the observation point, along comes a TN Hwy. Dept. pickup with a huge chainsaw in the back....go figure.

 

We'll be there loaded for bear or whatever. Yes, the weather changes crazily, so we'll have warm clothes, rain gear, and summertime clothing in addition to our emergency tree-clearing stuff.

 

Maybe I should add this to my emergency bag that I carry in the boot...