Normally when we talk about going to the mountains to ride the bikes I always suggest we stay the whole weekend, or at least one night. If we’re going to ride up instead of trailering it totally wears me out. After riding all day all I want to do is lay down in a nice comfortable bed and sleep.

Normally when I suggest this hubby’s response is, not this time. He’s always got some excuse that he’s got something to do the next day. Well, he surprised me tonight. He actually came to me and said “Why don’t we make a weekend trip to the mountains out of our Deal’s Gap trip?”

I’m sure my face lit up like a light bulb. So, our new plan is we’re going up to The Gap on Friday will all our friends. Then we’re just going to ride on up to one of the Pigeon Forge cabins our friend’s parents own. They’re going to let us stay for free, so we should definitely take advantage of it!

We thought about just riding the bike to Pigeon Forge, but I think we’re going to drive the Blazer, and we’ll let Allison trailer the bike back down the mountain with hers. She won’t need to unload hers until we’re back on Sunday anyway. We’re doing that because I want to do some outlet shopping while we’re there, and I don’t exactly have room to put my buys on the bike. It’s hard enough just packing a backpack for a couple days when we take the bike on a trip.