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The bakery at Tellico Plains, which is the last proper stop before the Skyway
October 25, 2022
Corn stalks and skeletons outside, it being the last week of October
October 25, 2022
A covered bridge at the foot of the climb
October 25, 2022
Cherohala Harley-Davidson, at the bottom of the Skyway
October 25, 2022
The bikes outside while everybody had a look round
October 25, 2022
The Skyway's own advertisement for itself
October 25, 2022
The first overlook on the Skyway
October 25, 2022
Stopped at a stone wall with the ridges behind
October 25, 2022
Looking back the way we had come
October 25, 2022
A loaded Road King at four thousand feet
October 25, 2022
The road ahead, which went on like this for fifty miles
October 25, 2022
Following the others up
October 25, 2022
Somewhere near the top of the range
October 25, 2022
Rust and orange as far as it went
October 25, 2022
The light coming in low across the ridges
October 25, 2022
Two of us at an overlook, late in the afternoon
October 25, 2022
Parked at the edge
October 25, 2022
The last of the colour before the descent into North Carolina
October 25, 2022
In for the night at Bryson City
October 25, 2022
Where the bikes sat between rides
A map of the Dragon on a wall, two days before we rode it
October 25, 2022
On the way up to the gap
October 26, 2022
The Oconaluftee valley, which is most of what the day was for
October 26, 2022
Ridge behind ridge, going grey with distance
October 26, 2022
Cloud shadow moving across the valley
October 26, 2022
The same view, which nobody could leave alone
October 26, 2022
Orange all the way down to the creek
October 26, 2022
Looking east from the overlook
October 26, 2022
Halfway up and already worth the stop
October 26, 2022
Spruce at the top of the frame, hardwood below
October 26, 2022
Two of the party at the rail
October 26, 2022
The valley going back in rows
October 26, 2022
A quarter of an hour here produced most of a day of photographs
October 26, 2022
All five of us, the party being complete at last
October 26, 2022
The last frame before we moved on
October 26, 2022
The sign explaining which of the forest below was never logged
October 26, 2022
Gear on and gear off again, which is most of a mountain day
October 26, 2022
Back at the bikes
October 26, 2022
Helmets on for the run over the gap
October 26, 2022
Down the north side
October 26, 2022
Following the leaves down
October 26, 2022
A maple in Gatlinburg that had gone the whole way
October 26, 2022
The town had committed to the season without reservation
October 26, 2022
Baking tiny crispy cookies since 1924, and we bought some
October 26, 2022
Coffee, because it was colder than the photographs suggest
October 26, 2022
Into Harmon Den, where the leaves are on the road rather than above it
October 26, 2022
The quietest riding of the whole trip
October 26, 2022
Running back south in the last of the light
October 26, 2022
Bryson City, decorated
October 26, 2022
The scarecrows in town invited this sort of thing
October 26, 2022
The pumpkins had much the same effect
October 26, 2022
Red trees at dusk by the depot
October 26, 2022
The caboose at the railroad depot
October 26, 2022
Under the maple by the tracks
October 26, 2022
Both evenings in Bryson City ended at the same tree
October 26, 2022
Leaving the house on the Dragon morning
October 27, 2022
The Tree of Shame
October 27, 2022
Every piece of it came off a bike that did not make a corner
October 27, 2022
Wheels, levers, mirrors and a great deal of plastic
October 27, 2022
Arriving at the gap
October 27, 2022
The pub, which is part of the arrangement
October 27, 2022
The merchandise runs to a single theme
October 27, 2022
Three hundred and eighteen curves in eleven miles, as advertised
October 27, 2022
The five of us before the first run
October 27, 2022
The same again, from a little further back
October 27, 2022
On the eleven miles
October 27, 2022
Photographed on a corner by one of the services that work the road
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A wave for the camera on the way past
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Coming through with the light on
Killboy
A Road King is not what this road is usually photographed with
Tail of the Dragon Photos
Loaded for a week away and still holding a line
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The shop at the Tennessee end
October 27, 2022
The lake at the bottom of the hill
October 27, 2022
Regrouping at the north end
October 27, 2022
One more in front of the sign
October 27, 2022
Nobody objected to doing this twice
October 27, 2022
By the water, with the far bank still in colour
October 27, 2022
Ten minutes by the lake before turning round
October 27, 2022
The Skyway on a poster, having ridden it two days earlier
October 27, 2022
In front of the dragon
October 27, 2022
The dragon is built out of motorcycles, which is the joke
October 27, 2022
It is covered, head to tail, in other people’s stickers
October 27, 2022
Even the weathervane keeps to the theme
October 27, 2022
Everybody gets photographed here eventually
October 27, 2022
A second sculpture, this one of the road itself
October 27, 2022
The bikes parked underneath it
October 27, 2022
The store, which sells a great deal of dragon
October 27, 2022
The whole party in front of the dragon
October 27, 2022
The bikes and the party, before turning south for Georgia
October 27, 2022
South on the lake road, heading for Georgia
October 27, 2022
A stop somewhere along the Gulf
October 29, 2022
A po-boy, which is the traditional confirmation that a trip is nearly over
October 29, 2022
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