By Joe
Our business meeting and after meeting ride started with the important stuff first; breakfast at Golden Coral in Fort Walton Beach, FL. I arrived at our designated meeting spot and started chowing down when M2 shows up and does the same. Shortly after the rest of the crew started trickling in Tony G., Edna, Munchkin, Tommy and Sandy, George and Robert W. and Bobby B. The meeting was short and almost sweet then we headed for the parking lot to ride sorta North to Jay, FL.
Since our illustrious Road Captain had prior commitments, I was elected to lead a ride somewhere. I found out a while ago that the Royal Mexican Grill in Jay, Fl had closed down and was eventually replaced with Pam’s Country Kitchen. I’ve wanted to make a trip up there to check it out so today was the day. I later found out that they have been open there for about a year now.
I had laid out a route from Good Things Donuts to Jay and saved it to a GPX file quite some time ago. I elected to follow it up to Jay via Shalimar and parts North, so I did not have to mess with my Harley GPS too much to get the route to work from Golden Coral.
The ride up to Jay was a pleasant one as we had overcast skies and no oppressive heat and sun to make things uncomfortable. We rode through Holt, FL and into the Blackwater Forest to get to Jay. We ended up meandering through the wooded backroads all the way up there. There were a few grumbles from the peanut gallery asking when we would get to lunch.
We arrived in Jay pretty much on time, just a little past 11 AM. We got our own table in the back after I helped them slide a couple tables together. That is when we found out they had an all you can eat buffet. Menus were quickly thrown aside, and the food bar was attacked in typical fashion by the Sandies.
After we had had our first helping and were working on seconds the waitress mentioned that they had cake as part of the Buffett. Orders were taken for strawberry and lemon cake post haste and it was delivered quickly to the table of ravenous cake monsters.
Their food was pretty good and no complaint was heard from anyone. Pam’s is going to have to be visited again soon.
We took a direct route south after getting fuel in Jay. Bobby, Sandy and Tommy split off at Hwy 90 with the rest continuing south to Navarre, FL. We only had one slight bout of barely perceptible drizzle on the way back although Bobby mentioned he had run into a rain shower for about a minute and a half.
Another Business meeting and after ride is now in the history books. Hope to see you on the next one.
JoeJoe
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