GEICO commercial and the BRP

[Venturous Randy]

Has anyone noticed that the GEICO motorcycle commercial has a scene that looks exactly like the Lynn Cove Viaduct on the Blue Ridge Parkway?

For anyone not knowing of the Lynn Cove Viaduct, it was a great engineering achivement in building a bridge around a portion on Grandfather Mountain.

RandyA

[ediddy]

I turn the channel everytime a geico commerical comes on. They think they have to have stupid commericals to sell insurance. Everytime I think they have reached the plateau for being stupid they go a little higher. If I had insurance with them I would change.

[GAWildKat]

I'm with Eddie on that one. Heck the last time I got a quote on insurance with them it was $1000/mo on my 1996 caprice. At the time my husband was working for them and that was with his "employee discount" At the time we each had a perfect driving record. I thought that was insane.

[Gray Ghost]

Although I will never have GEICO for insurance again, I do get a kick out of their gecko commercials. Course that is probably because it sounds so much like one of my sons doing an English accent.

[Bummer]

I haven't seen the commercial - I don't watch much TV. Still, that's an absolutely beautiful area to go riding. If it comes on while I happen to be watching, I'll not turn away. I won't buy their insurance but I'll sure drool over the ride. Yamaha used the Lynn Cove Viaduct for some of it's ad photos a few years back. That's now why I bought a Venture, but I didn't mind looking at the scenery.

[Venturous Randy]

If you ever ride the Lynn Cove Viaduct, take a few minutes to visit the visitor center there and see the model that was done of the mountain area and the building of the bridge. It really was a remarkable engineering achivement. It wa built from the top down with very little disturbing of the area under the bridge.

RandyA