Phoenix to Maggie Valley

[AlabamaNomadRider]

Never trailer when you can ride. Besides I don't even own a trailer.

[blowndodge]

Originally Posted by AlabamaNomadRider

Never trailer when you can ride. Besides I don't even own a trailer.

Since your in bama Gene are you hooking up with scott and his entourage?

[cactusjack]

Here's my return trip itinerary from Maggie Valley:

Day 8: June 17 (Fri)
Departing Maggie Valley
Pretty much I-40 W to Jackson, then W to Millington

Day 9: June 18 (Sat)
Departing Millington, TN
S to Memphis
I-40 W to Little Rock, through Fort Smith to Tulsa

Day 10: June 19 (Sun)
Departing Tulsa, OK
S to Oklahoma City
I-40 W to Amarillo
S to Clovis, NM

Day 11: June 20 (Mon)
Departing Clovis, NM
US-60 W to Pinetop, AZ

Day 12: June 21 (Tue)
Departing Pinetop, AZ
Arriving back home in Chandler

All my motels are booked for the entire trip. Now I just have to wait until June.

[MarkG]

Scott, I will be able to give you an I-40 report for the trip back when I get to Maggie Valley. Present plans are to leave approximately June 3rd going toward Albuquerque and take the boring Interstate. I am going to allow for a couple of days in Arkansas to do Pig Trail and the Ozark area, then move on toward Memphis. May go through Georgia if a friend of mine is going to be around or angle up through Tennessee. Won't know for a couple of weeks yet for last part, the distance will be the same regardless. Probably between 275 to 425 miles per day depending on side trips and screwing around.

Coming back is an unknown for routing. I'm going to go northeast toward Wheeling WV, probably taking most of the Blue Ridge Parkway. Hang a left and work my way back towards Iowa and South Dakota. Might as well go see my folks in the Black Hills as long as I am that far north. After the 4th of July I will cringe and head back toward the furnace we call Arizona.

[usranger74]

Scott

From Chattanooga you might consider going around the southern end of the Great Smokies and coming itno MV from the South

At Cleveland, TN cut over to US 64/74 then on to MV. About 133 miles and easy ridding. This rout also keeps you out of Knoxville, TN Traffic which can be very messy even in the slow part of the day

I don't think any other way will get you there faster. That is what I would do.


But, you could also look at going Nth of US 411 and cutting over to Telllico Plains and picking up the Cheroiala Skyway

http://www.vulcanbagger.com/phpBB3/v...ic.php?t=21141

[cactusjack]

Originally Posted by markg

Scott, I will be able to give you an I-40 report for the trip back when I get to Maggie Valley. Present plans are to leave approximately June 3rd going toward Albuquerque and take the boring Interstate. I am going to allow for a couple of days in Arkansas to do Pig Trail and the Ozark area, then move on toward Memphis. May go through Georgia if a friend of mine is going to be around or angle up through Tennessee. Won't know for a couple of weeks yet for last part, the distance will be the same regardless. Probably between 275 to 425 miles per day depending on side trips and screwing around.

Coming back is an unknown for routing. I'm going to go northeast toward Wheeling WV, probably taking most of the Blue Ridge Parkway. Hang a left and work my way back towards Iowa and South Dakota. Might as well go see my folks in the Black Hills as long as I am that far north. After the 4th of July I will cringe and head back toward the furnace we call Arizona.

Too bad you can't stay out until September, and come back to AZ when it's cooled off.

That's what I would like to do, if I had all the time in the world. Leave AZ in early June and stay out on the road until it cools off enough to make me want to come back.