After a peaceful sleep - it was so quiet at the camp site - the rain started around midnight and it was still raining in the morning. If fact it has rained all day!!! Bugger. Packed up in the wet and visited town for breakfast and called in to a Walmart for some chain oil - the store was vast - probably larger than a full size football pitch…
The ride up towards Asheville was extremely wet and I got soaked. Then I followed Blue Ridge Parkway but saw bugger-all through the rain and cloud. I could see vast amounts of damage caused by flooding on the way and quite a few roads totally closed. Gertie Garmin was having a hard time re-routing around Grandfather Mountain.
I finally got to the planned campsite which was closed until 1 May ! Sod this I thought - I'm soaking wet, cold and I need dry place to sleep - "Gertie find me a motel"… now sorted. Nothing fancy, in fact it's very grubby. Tomorrow I head for a campsite just up the road from the event that starts on Thursday….