The things Sandies talk about are, well different

A bit about that later, first the Knitting, 7 Sandies traveled 205 miles to eat a great lunch and tour Slocomb, AL.   Slocomb was not on our itinerary but these things happen, on a Sandie Adventure, sometimes .

When we left GTD this morning it was a marvelous day for an Adventure. The temperatures were almost Jacket weather, dry , just wonderful after this summer. Met Tommy at the 285 exit, on the Connector. A bit later picked up Ken C on Bob Sikes Rd.

Now we were a Balanced Sandie Crew, not familiar with the expression ? That’s when you have as many two wheelers as three wheelers, see you have a balance in The Force now.  We were headed to Hartford, Al. and Mom’s Restaurant. Getting there is enjoyable, we  ride on one probably the best section of Riding road in NWF. The section from Darlington, FL to the Alabama state line. This section is simply the best, curves that are a little technical, great road surface and some really pretty vistas. It is just a super nice riding experience.

The Tour of Slocomb came from Ken and I talking about lunch. Ken mentioned a country buffet place in Slocomb that was quite good. Well no Sandie turns down a chance to terrorize an innocent Buffet, especially with a recommendation like Ken’s. So off we headed to Slocomb. Let me interject something here, Our fixation on Buffets is so in our DNA that Bobby proposed getting a small Cornucopia horns decal to put on the Rides. Similar to fighter pilots painting how many kills they have. Fortunately we nixed the idea, I mean our bikes would be covered on Cornucopia horn decals. Which would make other motorcyclists envious of our prowess and cause jealous reactions. All of this was for not anyway, the restaurant closes on Saturday. So it was off to Hartford and Mom’s. On a side note Slocomb has a really cool Tomato Festival.

As most of you are aware we use Sena Mesh to communicate between bikes and people. From this came a strange conversation. Are you familiar with the word “lexicology”? No, it’s the study of words and how they affect language.

So, okay we pass some old pecan trees “I remark some nice looking old pecan trees”. Ken replies  “no they’re not”, I said “Then what are they “ ?  “They are pee-can trees”, “Huh? I said they are pick-ahn trees. ‘No sir in Georgia, where we grow pee-cans, a lot of pee-cans” Then Bobby replies “its pee-cans, my family used to grow and sell pee-cans”. Well I hated to disagree but I felt I should hold up the accepted pronunciation for civilized folks everywhere. “Gentlemen, its Pick-ahn in the rest of the Universe” ‘Oh contraire, person from someplace other than Georgia”.  Even at lunch this word salad continued. JoeJoe then interjects “ All and all its been a nutty day”.  You can see just how low our conversations are, nothing  that  is the least bit intellectually stimulating can be conversed on.   At end of the  no matter how you pronounce  P-E-C-A-N. It is still spelled Pecan.

It was a great day of Riding with friends 200plus miles of laughs and just the joy of Riding.

Next Sunday is our business meeting 9 am Golden Corral.