Day 2

The ignition switch is acting horrible this morning.  Hasn't done it before, but it doesn't want to do it's job.  Chowder fiddled with it for a few minutes and it decided to work.  There is a Harley store in Ashville so we decide to go and see if they have a new one.  No such luck.  It would take a week to get one...  That is how long that we have for vacation.  We head out north again.  Chowder has called Matthew and asked him to call the Harley stores along our route to see if any of them have a switch.  We enter Tennesee and stop at a view point to take a few pics of the mountains.  Very pretty.  I haven't been this way in about 10 years and while it still looks familiar, there are businesses that have cropped up along the way.  We make our way into Virginia.  This leg of the journey we have been following route 23.  We wind our way through Virginia and stop at Wise, VA at the Renos for a bite of lunch.  The service and food are awesome.  I highly recommend checking it out.  We had made one other pit stop in Virginia at a point of interest to check out scenery and the old coal tressles.  I will post pics later.  We wind our way along 23 into Kentucky.  Matthew has located a switch in Prestonsburg, Ky.  That is our next stop.  The Harley Davidson dealership in Prestonsburg should be glad to have the parts guy on staff.  I didn't get his name but his is probably 50s with great smelling cologne.  He hooked us up with the part we needed and we were on our way...for about 2 miles when we hit the rain.  We were close to a bank and pulled under the canopy where three other bikers were taking cover.  We got our rain gear on minus my rain pants.  The wind was whipping so bad that it was have been like trying to jump into them while they were hanging on the clothesline with a breeze going to get into them.  We headed out in the pouring rain and promptly ran out of it about three miles down the road.  Don't worry...this wasn't the last we would see of it!  We stopped at our friends, Mary Ann and Dave's house, who live south of Louisa and Chowder changed the switch in about ten or fifteen minutes.  And then came the monsoon.  We had narrowly missed having to ride through the torrential downpour.  We put in for the night there and watched it rain and rain and rain some more.  Up until this point, we had covered most of this ride before.  The new stuff would start tomorrow.