John Smeltzer of Cleveland recently completed a 5,000-mile motorcycle trip with his daughter, Lauren Smeltzer, after her graduation from high school.CLEVELAND, Tenn. — Lauren Smeltzer never had a chance to become a girlie girl.
She is the youngest of five children and the only girl. So, when her older brothers all got dirt bikes, so did she.
“Most [girls,]” Lauren said, “think they’ll be the ones on the back [of the motorcycle].”
But not her. Lauren has been riding four years and got her first new bike in 2009.
When her dad, John Smeltzer, suggested a motorcycle trip across the country after her graduation from Walker Valley High School in May, she was all in.