Today is hopefully our last day in Tellico. Laura and Kyle have been great hosts but we would like to get back on the road.
Bill’s parts came into a Loudon TN bike store so Joe and ran up there on our bikes and picked up wheel bearings, a CDI ignition module and coil. Wheels are fix and back on the bike and the CDI & coil did not fix the engine problem so the constant velocity carb is fully disassembled and soaking in carb cleaner…. hope that does it so we can assemble and take off tomorrow.
Tellico is turning out to be a very cool intersection point of roads and social network information of everything motorcycle. A guy just shows up out the blue on a 1200GSA named Mike this morning. He wanted to see what the Farm House Inn was like and wanted meet us because he had read our daily posts on the ADV rider forum thread. He is from Ocala FL, traveling up here for 8 days and stopped by. I ended up having dinner with him and learned he plays Blues harmonica and has been to Clarksdale to play at some of the places Janelle and I visited on our Mississippi trip. He also met Bo Diddly at an airport and had a great story about how “You don’t know Diddly” came about” (hint, Bo Diddly concert at the White House).
Hopefully I will report from a new spot west of here tomorrow or the next day.
Some catch up on some short trip video’s are posted below since I’ve had time to figure out how to edit them here during our stay at the Farm House Inn.
