This past Saturday, I did my first real day trip on my motorcycle and it was a lot of fun.  Apparently the route I took is called the “5 and dime” by certain people.  Basically you take VA State Route 5 (Main St) out of Richmond, head down to the Jamestown Ferry, then proceed through Surry, VA and then come back up VA State Rt 10.  Here’s a basic map of where I went (click image to see the route in Google Maps):

Anyhow, I really enjoyed it.  I didn’t get a chance to take tons of pictures (obviously that would be a little difficult while driving), but when I was on the ferry between Jamestown and Surry, I met up with a group of nice guys out on an even longer day trip (basically they’d come up from almost North Carolina).  It was sort of funny because I pulled up next to them (8-10 Harley’s) on the ferry and as soon as I cut off my engine one of them came over and asked how I was doing, if I was having fun on my ride, etc.  Great group of guys.  He saw I had a camera and asked if I wanted a picture taken of me with my bike, which I appreciated:

Check out my other photo’s from the trip/ferry ride if you’d like.  There are some pretty neat ones. They had one of the recreated ships sailing on the James and I got some pictures of the bikes from that group I met on the ferry as well.  Hopefully I’ll get better about taking more pictures when I pull over for pit stops, etc.