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- Subject: Re: Blue Ridge Parkway
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- From: dlady@galoob.cs.utk.edu (Don Lady)
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 01:20:20 GMT
- Reply-To: dlady@galoob.cs.utk.edu (Don Lady)
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- In article <C166tv.DLB@well.sf.ca.us>, wfrank@well.sf.ca.us (Wade Franklin) writes:
- |> In article <C15rMK.I74@geovision.gvc.com> barry@geovision.gvc.com (Barry Comer) writes:
- |> >Hi Folks:
- |> >
- |> > I have heard of a piece of road called the "Blue Ridge Parkway" and
- |> > would like to know where it is? Any info is welcome.
- |> >
- |> >Thanks
- |> >Barry
- |> >
- |> >--
- |> >
- |> >===========================================================================
- |> > I would write a signiture file but I don't have the time. Then again
- |> > I guess I just did, go figure. Funnier things have happened.....
- |>
- |>
- |>
- |> The Blue Ridge Parkway begins near Cherokee, North Carolina (at the eastern
- |> entrance to the Great Smoky Mts. National Park) and runs along the
- |> Appalachians up into Virginia, ending at Shenandoah Natl. Park (I think).
- |> It's a two-lane highway, built mostly during the Depression, high altitude,
- |> very twisty, very scenic. I'm looking forward to riding it sometime.
- |> --
- |> =------------------------------------------------------------------=
- |> = Wade Franklin DoD #705 '92 FXDC DynaGlide Custom =
- |> = wfrank@well.sf.ca.us HOG, AMA '66 Triumph Trophy 650 =
- |> =------------------------------------------------------------------=
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- It also has a speed limit of 35 MPH most of the way. But, sometimes
- you can even get up faster. But then you miss all the scenery. :(
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