An Ace of a Lunch Ride

It was a hot, dark and rainy day. I could have said “It was a dark and stormy night “ . But that would have been very clichéd. If I could have I would have stooped that low. As Sandies we take any cheap  literary shot we can.  Now it applied  to  Bobby B, Sandy S, Tommy N and Tim W were caught in a summer storm on I-10.   I bet there were some choice words describing that situation. Oh  us ? we  only got wet from sweat.  Only in  Florida can you drown then bake like a cake in the oven all in the same hour.

We had 10 Sandies on this Tony G Lunch Ride. It was to make up for last week me leading to the wrong restaurant. The trip to lunch was 134 miles  of Florida weather. Along the way Tim W entertained us with his astute observations  “Hey George the puddle from sweat I left last week on this road is still here”.

We reached Aces Hanger, parked and enjoyed the A/C in the restaurant. Even a simple meal is not that simple with the Sandies. Since Tony missed his meal here last week, I offered to buy his today. Tony is addicted to root beer which led to Tommy, who has a similar addiction and Tony discussing the pros and cons of various brands of  root beers.

 Mark S was solo today, so there were certain food indulgences that made their way to Mark’s plate. Can you say peach cobbler ? Speaking of peach cobbler, the wait staff said they were out of ice cream. But not to lament the loss, the manager sent someone out to the store to buy vanilla ice cream.  Now that’s service in my book. JoeJoe was served a huge piece of fish for his fish po’boy, JoeJoe never faltered.

As we left we split off some heading down I-10 and the underwater adventure. The rest of us headed south, no rain , but pretty hot still. It was actually a very  enjoyable ride anytime with Sandies riding is always fun.

I would like to thank Sandy S and JoeJoe for the great pictures.

Next Sunday is a Breakfast Ride, weather permitting. 7 am GTD.

The Lunch Chairman himself