Living in Pennsylvania I tend not to go on as many adventures during the winter months because I’m not a fan of the cold. However, this gives me an opportunity to share some of my past ones. The first one I’d like to share is The Dragon.
One of my favorite ways to see new places is traveling by bike. And no I don’t mean the ones you have to pedal. I think it’s great for those who do, but this gal just doesn’t have that much energy lol. I’m talking about motorcycles. Well, one day my bf was telling about the Tail of the Dragon. A section of road that almost all motorcycle riders have heard of and many have experienced, and how he’d like to do it. Me being the person I am, I started doing my research. I came back to him and said “you do know there is an entire dragon, right?”. Well he didn’t, and as we’ve come to find out most people do not. So instead of just experiencing the Tail of the Dragon, we took on the entire Dragon.
The Dragon is made up of the famous Tail of the Dragon, Back of the Dragon, Head of the Dragon, Neck of the Dragon and the Claw of the Dragon. The Claw of the Dragon is actually made of multiple loops so we decided to divide our “Dragon Adventure” into two trips. The first year we did everything but the Claw and the second year we did the Claw. I’m going to break our trips into multiple posts because there are a lot of miles and sites to cover. In this post I’ll just give you and an overview.
The Neck, Back and Claw are all located in Viginia, the Tail is in Tennessee and the Head is in West Virginia. I laid out our trip so thet we would do the Neck, then travel down the Back, make our way to the Tail, then do the Head on the way back home. Again, the Claw we left for our second trip.
The first day we traveled from western PA to a hotel in Staunton, VA close to the Neck of the Dragon. I planned it this way so we could get a good nights sleep and be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed for the true beginning of our adventure the next day. It was a lot of miles to cover so there weren’t many stops on the way down, but it was a beautiful ride.
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