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	Labor Day Weekend Motorcycle Rides General > Motorcycle Our weekend started on Saturday with Goldwing Appreciation Day at Team Power Sports in Garner, NC. The NC Goldwing Precision Drill Team put on a nice show around 1:30PM. I had never seen them before and was very impressed. One of the riders was 18 years old. Watch the video below.
	Old Man Crotch Rocket General > Motorcycle Last weekend Laurie and I went out on an afternoon date to the local Camping World. On the way we stopped at the Honda motorcycle place in Garner to visit with an old friend of Laurie's. Big mistake. I sat on a GL 1800 Goldwing.
	Upper Cascades Falls, Hanging Rock State Park, North Carolina Travel > Waterfalls Another weekend of Geocaching brought us here. The photos are not great but they give you an idea of the waterfall. The waterfall is easy to access from the visitor's center and the whole park is pretty nice. So check it out. There are couple of other waterfalls in Hanging Rock State Park I want to visit sometime.
	Watkins Glen State Park, New York Travel > Waterfalls This is a beautiful park in eastern NY. Laurie told us about it when we traveled to Maine in 2010. She had been there as a girl. This place is nothing like the waterfalls we visit in the woods of North Carolina but it was nice in its own way. There were well developed trails and stairs through out the park and it looked like it might have been developed in the 1930's by the WPA or CCC.
	Lower Cascades Falls, Hanging Rock State Park, North Carolina Travel > Waterfalls Another weekend of Geocaching brought us here. The photos are not great but they give you an idea of the waterfall. Laurie had the boys looking for gem stones in the shallow pools. The waterfall is easy to access and the whole park is pretty nice. So check it out. There are couple of other waterfalls in Hanging Rock State Park I want to visit sometime.
	Second Falls at Graveyard Fields, North Carolina Travel > Waterfalls We have passed Graveyard Fields several times over the years and never stopped. This time we did. The hike to this waterfall was easy and it is well worth the hike. I wish I liked to swim because the pool at the base of these falls looked very inviting. Notice the jumper in the photo above.
	Wolf Creek Falls aka Paradise Falls, North Carolina Travel > Waterfalls We went to this waterfall while seeking a Geocache. I don't have good photos as this was before I got serious about waterfall photography. The trail was a bit of a hike and I remember the last part being very steep using roots and rocks for handholds.
	Elk River Falls, North Carolina Travel > Waterfalls This was another waterfall we visited because there was a Geocache nearby. I was not too impressed with this waterfall because there was a lot of trash in the water. We were not accustomed to seeing that.
	Nantahala Falls and White Water Rafting, North Carolina Travel > Waterfalls The boys have busy schedules now but Bradley had a week off between jobs and Tucker got time off from his two jobs so we went rafting. Greg and Donna went as well as Bradley's friend Austin. We have been on the Nantahala River a couple of times before but this time the boys were old enough to rent single person Duckies and Bradley also had a Contour video camera he wanted to try out.
	Sliding Rock Jr, North Carolina Travel > Waterfalls We have been here many times over the years. This may be our favorite spot in the North Carolina Mountains. I don't know if it has a name but we call it Sliding Rock Jr. It is only a few feet from the road and seems to be a favorite spot with the locals. There are always several families here just having a blast. Part way down the slide is a hole that kids like to slide or jump into.
	Dill Falls, North Carolina Travel > Waterfalls We first visited this waterfall in 2003. We liked this one because we could drive almost to the falls and there was no one there but us. A Geocache was located within 100 feet of the waterfall. Many of the waterfalls we visited in the early 2000's were because of nearby Geocaches.
	Katahdin Falls in Baxter State Park, Maine Travel > Waterfalls I don't have parking coordinates for this waterfall. We planned to go white water rafting in Maine and we arrived at the campground early so we went exploring. Baxter State Park was close. We visited and decided to hike to these falls. I did not even take my tripod so I took the waterfall photos with my camera pressed against a tree to keep it steady. The waterfalls were pretty nice.
	Looking Glass Falls, North Carolina Travel > Waterfalls This is a waterfall you can view from US 276. Parking can sometimes be difficult but if you can find a spot the stop is well worth it. A paved path leads to the bottom of the falls and there will almost always be people swimming in the pool at the bottom of the falls. The map view below shows the paved trail to the falls as well as the parking.
	Courthouse Falls, North Carolina Travel > Waterfalls We first visited this waterfall in June 2004 on a rain drenched weekend of Geocaching. We found the cache within sight of the falls and did not remain long because of the rain.
	School House Falls, North Carolina Travel > Waterfalls The boys and I found this waterfall in 2004. We were doing a lot of Geocaching at the time and we were doing a multi-cache. In that game you start with the coordinates for the first cache. If you find the cache, it contains the coordinates or a simple puzzle to determine the coordinates for the next cache. One of the caches was behind School House Falls. I think there were a total of 4 caches.