And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Dingess tunnel: https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/state-pride/west-virginia/bloody-mingo-dingess-tunnel-wv
ReplyDelete17 lawmen killed over 80 years trying to keep order.
DeleteVery nice 'Open Road' submissions CW. Thank You for them.
ReplyDeleteFortunately, you don't have to have to walk up that cliff in Fira, Santorini, they got donkeys you can ride up the path from the old harbour.
ReplyDeleteAnother in a long list of places I want to visit.
DeleteAnother excellent Open Road.
ReplyDeleteDoggies is best, but isn't that the gas station Sarah Conner stops at before the apocalypse?
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I thought she was in Mexico.
DeleteThis makes my Friday!
ReplyDeleteEnduros are fun loved mine but too old for that give me the Bronco. Like the Defender too bit they pricey
ReplyDeleteGreat pics, as ever. I like the motorbikes but the first pic does it for me. Nice ass! How I long to be back in the saddle.
ReplyDeleteThe 2nd tunnel shown has to be somewhere on the Blue Ridge Parkway, based on its construction.
ReplyDeleteLooks like coming out of Gatlinburg toward Pigeon Forge.
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Every Friday, we get to have a rare treat with your incredible "Open Road" photo essays. THANK YOU!!!
ReplyDeleteI do wonder what the purpose of the wooden building is that sitting on the side of the snow-covered road.
It looks like an outhouse.
Deletedoes anyone knows where the last photo came from?
ReplyDeleteMy favorite is the one with the dog.
ReplyDeleteJust another Fantastic Friday ride...and starting this Friday's round with another view of a lady in chaps made me smile...twice.
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