I had great weather today – unlike the predictions by the weather service.

I drove in from Tennessee via a number of back roads, culminating in Route 129 (the Tail of the Dragon). I’m staying at the Dragon’s Rest Cabins, which are nice and secluded, a way off Route 129. The front porch of my cabin looks out onto a meadow with mountains in the distance:

I got several runs on the Dragon. The last one of the day was great – I had no vehicles in front of me for the whole distance. I’ll put up a video once I get home. For now, here’s some video captures:

My car video captured this image of Killboy taking my picture:

I stopped in at Wheeler’s and chatted for about a half an hour about the Dragon, Atoms, and so forth. The police presence (seems to be pretty much all on the Tennessee side) is still being noted. As I came down the hill to the end of the Dragon, a police car had a whole line of vehicles pulled over and was ticketing them one after another.

I can certainly understand ticketing people if they’re doing something stupid (which can include blatant speeding), but zinging people in a trick 30MPH zone (it is posted at 40 going uphill and 30 going downhill) isn’t fair and just drives people away, which hurts the local businesses.

One last pic to close out this post:

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