Mountain Menschen Motorcycle Group Asheville weekend

Join the Jewish Motorcycle Alliance for an Asheville weekend, full of motorcycle riding, sight seeing, Asheville dining, and so much more!  This group is made up of mostly men, but there are a number of women who ride as well. Some folks decide to join in but drive a car instead. Feel free to join in any capacity you feel is right for you, and attend one,  some  or all of the weekend events.

Itinerary: (subject to change) email Laurie Simmonds  at lauriesimmonds12@gmail.com with questions.

 

Thursday 9/5/2019

Country Inn and Suites (199 Tunnel Road, Asheville)- check in is 3 PM

If you are in town early enough, we will meet you in the lobby of the hotel at

3 PM and take a ride up Route 74A to the town of Chimney Rock, NC

(great short run of twisty road, town is quaint and has small Harley dealer)

ride is 40 minutes each way with a short stop in the town of Chimney Rock

6:30-7 PM – Dinner at O’Charley’s Restaurant (0.3 miles walk from hotel)($)

 

Friday 9/6/2019

Meet 8 AM breakfast area Country Inn and Suites (breakfast incl with hotel stay)

kickstands up at 8:30 AM (make sure your tank is full)

Blue Ridge Parkway north

stop at Craggy Gardens visitor center for bathroom and snack break (NO gas)

back onto the Parkway north to Little Switzerland Inn

if not interested in a technical ride, spend time at Switzerland Inn (great views, shops, snacks)

if interested in a technical ride , it is 30-40 minutes to ride Route 226A (The Diamondback)  back to Little Switzerland (circle of 16 miles)

Lunch at the Chalet Restaurant ($)

if not interested in a technical ride, ride back towards Asheville on the Blue Ridge Parkway

if interested in a technical ride, we will be going back via the Blue Ridge Parkway to Route 80 (The Devil’s Whip) to Route 70 to I40 (even our interstates are fun  and challenging and beautiful here)

3 PM – all meet at Harley Davidson of Asheville  (huge),

20 Patton Cove Rd, Swannanoa, NC

Dinner Cornerstone Restaurant (0.4 mile walk from hotel) then, rented bus ride to downtown Asheville

(walk around Asheville, there is a famous Drum Circle, a nearby Cigar Bar (Tobacco Plus), a pinball museum ($15 pp all unlimited pinball games), many breweries and pubs (wicked weed funkatorium, AshevilleBrewery,..), shopping, buskers, the Retrocade ($10 pp vintage and modern video and arcade games and beers on tap) and much more)

 

Saturday 9/7/2019

Meet 8:30 AM breakfast area Country Inn and Suites

kickstands up at 9 AM (make sure your tank is full)

Tunnel Road to I 240 to Route 63 (New Leicester Hwy) – (as soon as the road narrows, there are twisties, sweeping curves, etc)

10 AM stop at Trust General Store for gas, stretch, snacks, bathroom break

Right turn onto Route 209 (The Rattler) into Hot Springs, NC

(curves, mountain views, straightaways, hairpin turns, – quite a technical ride)

if not interested in a technical ride, will leave from hotel and go Asheville Highway directly to Hot Springs, NC

11:30 AM reservations at Hot Springs world famous natural hot mineral water tubs

(jetted hot tubs, cleaned after each group, built into wooden decks in the woods by the river with hot natural mineral water from deep inside the earth pumped in)($)

1:30 PM lunch at Mosaic or Spring Creek Tavern ($)

Return to hotel via more sedate US 25/70 (Asheville Highway) to I26 to I 240

rented bus to dinner and back

Dinner 7 PM at Luella’s BBQ, 501 Merrimon Avenue, Asheville ($)

Sunday 9/8/2019

goodbyes over breakfast

 

DO NOT FORGET BATHING SUITS AND TOWELS. BREAKFAST IS INCLUDED  EACH DAY IN HOTEL PRICE

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