Finding Dual Sport Riding Buddy's

I am fortunate enough to live in one of the best motorcycling locations in the country.  We have great riding weather for most of the year, have many mountain twisty roads, and if you are into it, there are Forest Service Roads and trails all over the place - just up the road from my house.

FINDING FRIENDS
When I lived in Forida, I had a small group of people to ride with - several of which lived in my neighborhood.  Unfortunately, there are only a couple of riders besides me in my neighborhood and none of them are dual sport riders.  Fortunately though, I have gotten to know some riders on the KLR.Net forum.  It's a fantastic website forum that has "regional" pages.  On the Southeast KLR Forum, there is a thread for North GA Mountain riding that guys use to find people to ride with.  I recently met up with 2 really great guys who live in Chatsworth GA and know the GA mountains very well in the area from Dahlonega up to Ellijay and north to Tennessee.  This area is part of the Chattahoochee National Forest. 

A MARBLEMINER AND UPS GUY
Les is Kentucky native who works for UPS and Jeff works for the local Marble Mine in Ellijay.  They both ride KLR 650's like mine.  Great guys - I really like the way they ride too - they like to ride a little, stop, and putz around, talk, etc.  During one of our stops, Jeff was talking about his oldest son.  He is a Marine and is assigned to the Presdential Detail.  In fact, if you have ever seen the picture of President Bush getting on the Marine One helicopter for the last time when he left office, Jeff's son in the Marine on the left that closed the door for him.  Pretty cool - I guess he just got back from a tour in Afghanistan and is on detail for President Obama.  Pretty cool pretty cool.  I look forward to getting together with them in the near future.