Smoky Mountain Day Drive - Oct. 20th, Pictures starting at Post #74, page 4 Options

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ROUTE CHANGE 10/18/2012

Found out Waynesville will be packed with Apple Fest attendees so we have altered the route just a bit. Meeting place is the same but lunch has changed to the Nick & Nate's Pizza in SYLVA

Here is the new route:

[*]MEETING POINT: Asheville NC at Bent Creek Baptist Church on Brevard Rd (exit 33 off I-26) There is a nice, long stretch of "parking lot" at this location
[*]Begin the Drive along the Blue Ridge Pky all the way to junction of US23/Great Smoky Mtns Expy. Take US23 approx. 10 miles to Sylva.
approx. 60 miles, 2 hours
[*]Lunch in Sylva at Nick & Nate's Pizzaria
approx. 1.5 hrs
[*]Take 107 to Cashiers then 64 to Lake Toxaway area.
approx. 40 miles, 1.25 hrs
[*]Continue on 64. North on 215/Parkway headed to Canton, NC. 215 becomes 110.
approx. 50 miles, 1.5 hours
[*]END POINT in Canton. Be safe driving home.

I plan to leave Seymour around 8:00am and meet other area teeners along the way. I will be driving 411 to Sevierville and Newport; 70/25 to Hot Springs; 209 to 63 to Asheville; and 19/23/74 to 112 to the meeting point.

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If you find WCR, RRC, MUSR, ECC, TR and many other 914 events are simply too far away to attend, then chances are you live in the Southeast. If so, make plans to attend a day drive on the twisty roads southwest of Asheville, NC on October 20th. Yeah, I know this is short notice (and is same day as ECC and Petit LeMans) but this drive originally came about when dlee (from Winston-Salem area) and I (from Knoxville area) decided to meet in the mountains this fall for a day of driving. Why not invite everybody?

Teeners from both sides of the Smokies will meet up for a day of (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif) some of the “best” roads in the Smoky Mountains including a portion of the Blue Ridge Parkway. We will meet around 10:30am south of Asheville, NC to begin our mountain road journey. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/chowtime.gif) in Waynesville at Nick & Nate's Pizzaria (take it easy on the hand crafted beers! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/drunk.gif) ) followed by more (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif)

Don't have a running 914? That's OK... bring whatever you have.

This is simply a get-together of like-minded people looking for a fun, safe day of driving their 914s on twisty mountain roads. No prizes, no contests, no fees; though there might be a t-shirt (IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif)

ORIGINAL ROUTE NO LONGER VALID - PLEASE SEE ROUTE ABOVE
Below is the planned drive (~130+ miles, ~4 hrs drive time, ~2 hours social time):

• MEETING POINT: Asheville NC at Bent Creek Baptist Church on Brevard Rd (exit 33 off I-26) There is a nice, long stretch of "parking lot" at this location
• Begin the Drive along the Blue Ridge Pky to Waynesville NC via 276
  approx. 40 miles, 1.25 hours
• Lunch in Waynesville at Nick & Nate's Pizzaria
  approx. 1.5 hrs
• Take 276 east to 215 south headed to Lake Toxaway
  approx. 50 miles, 1.5 hrs
• 281/107 to Cullowhee
  approx. 30 miles, 1 hour
• 107 to Sylva – END POINT at Jackson Plaza
  approx. 10 miles, 20 min

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I plan to leave Seymour around 8:00am and meet other area teeners along the way. I will be driving 411 to Sevierville and Newport; 70/25 to Hot Springs; 209 to 63 to Asheville; and 19/23/74 to 112 to the meeting point.

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[Tom_T]

While the change in route & lunch to Sylva due to the apple festival was a good idea, it messed up my plans to join all y'all for lunch at Nate's pizza. The Waynesville one was in the midst of that festival zoo, so Steve was right on to move it to Sylva.

Sorry to have missed a fellow old timer teener - Jawjaw914 - & the rest of you, since we were seeing our kids' "new" house late morning/noon in Candler, & couldn't get out to Sylva in time.

My wife & I spent the afternoon at that zoo in Waynesville, then met up with Steve/poorsche914 in Canton & visited for a bit in a parking lot. So it was nice for me from SoCal to meet up with a fellow Teener in NC while we're here in Asheville to visit our daughter & son-in-law etc.

We also met up with Andy/Scarlet75 earlier this week up in Watertown NY while we were visiting our son at Ft. Drum.

So touched base with a couple of other Teeners on this trip! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Cheers Y'all! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)
Tom
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I just now made it home after a ~350 mile round trip. It was nice meeting other teeners - Terry, Ronnie, Doug, Peter, Gary and his wife, and Tom and his wife. (already knew Derrick (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif) ) Nine of us at lunch representing six 914s.
The drive along the Blue Ridge Parkway was really nice - such awesome views! After lunch, some of the group had to head home so it was just Doug, Ronnie and me driving down 107 to 281 to 64. Stopped for gas and went our separate ways as Doug's 914 developed a miss and he decided to head home. Ronnie was going to turn back toward Atlanta anyway at this point. So that left me headed north on 215 - wow, what a great drive! Wish the others could have made it.
Only used about a quart and a half of oil (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lol-2.gif)
These cars hummmmm at 70+ mph (IMG:style_emoticons/default/happy11.gif)

If you are in the area, join us for the Spring drive... I plan on putting together a Waterfall Tour. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif)

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I will load some videos later tonight or tomorrow. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/type.gif)

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