Mellish's Mistake Turned Out OK

In spite of Kirk Mellish's promise of sunny skies and mid-sixties our guys braved overcast skies and forty-someting temperatures to ride to our rescheduled monthly meeting at Timothy, on Saturday the 20th of November. After warming up we got down to discussing plans for the coming year.

It was general agreed that rides during the coldest months, with their shorter days and varying temperatures day to day, would be hard to plan in advance, so we opted for ad hoc short notice rides, announced through e-mails, when it looks as if we are in for a day or two of Native American Summer.

Once more temperate times are back, the consensus was to plan rides to a specific destination, that is, riding to a location, having some activity there, then riding home, preferably on a different route, still keeping to the 300 mile  or so r/t limit we kept to this year(think Little White House or Chickamauga battlefield). There was also quite a bit of interest in going further, but with an overnight stop. For example if we wanted to go to Wheels-In-Time in Maggie Valley we could plan a Friday after work departure, an overnight stop in say Blue Ridge, Blairsville, or Tellico Plains , then a ride up to Maggie Valley in the early morning, a tour (2-4 hrs), then a ride home.

We also decided to cancel the December meeting because of the Holidays and start up again next year on January 29th. That will  mark the anniversary of one year as a club. Where does time fly?

After the meeting nine of us rode up to Dahlonega for lunch at the Yahoola Creek Grill (nice place0. By then it had warmed up so most of us rode up to Stone Pile Gap.  http://roadsidegeorgia.com/site/stonepile.html  Avoiding any disturbance to Trahlyta's grave we hung a left into R-Ranch property then took a series of Sullivan's Secret Back-roads (SSB's) to emerge on SR 52 on its way to Amicalola Falls. However we soon opted to take Bailey Waters Road south, then more SSB's to our usual stop off at the Chevron at Steve Tate and SR 53. Soon after, we took our seperate ways home.

A nice ride, good food and, as always, great fellowship.