What has a 100 caps and lives at JoeJoe's house ?

Give up ?? Answer below , today was just not a normal Breakfast Ride. I mean come on any Sandie Ride is subject to get off the rails quickly anyway. Today just had help getting there. Okay the stats 11 Sandies , not a bad turn out. We did 125 nice miles  and most important home before Noon.

It starts with Sam and I arriving at GTD  nice and early. Tommy walks over and points to my front tire and says those words every motorcyclist hates to hear , “Ya gotta a flat tire”. My reaction “Ha Ha can’t fool me, brand new tires, so there “. “No I’m not fool’n’ says Tommy with the serious Tommy face. The same face highway miscreants saw  when Tommy walked up to your car. Oh along with “May I see license, proof of Insurance and registration”. So I decided to make my own inspection. Yep, flat tire, Damn , well let’s get out the air pump. Tommy has a good size air pump, makes short work of adding air. Mark and Tony inspect the tire, no obvious reason for the loss of air.   I  had dug  out my pump, Tony looks at it and says in that voice every guy knows  “ Kinda little isn’t it “ ?  Mark chimes up with something similar. I sigh,  I guess its show and tell time. Remember in Crocodile Dundee when he says “You call that a knife ( substitute Australian accent) now this is a knife “. Well I say something similar ( less the accent) “you boys call those a pump’ ? ‘Now this is a pump”, holding up my Cycle Pump for all to see. With that put to bed, I look over and Booby B and Ken C are looking  on amused at all of this.

Joe and Melanie W  roll up at that moment. It is always neat to see the Joe and Melanie . What you ask is Sandy S doing through all this ? Why being off the rails Sandy, of course. Well actually Sandy and Sam are doing a FOD Walk. All of you Aviation types know what a FOD Walk is. It happens my front tires are short stem caps. How you ask ? I do not have a clue why. Sandy speculates that someone must have lost a stem cap somewhere in the parking lot. So Sam and Sandy FOD walked the lot, sadly nada, nope, none.

Tommy having a AHA moment calls JoeJoe (who is meeting us up the road). Tommy asks if Joejoe had any stem caps laying around the garage and if he could bring a few. Joejoe said “ Sure I can find a few” remember this off hand answer, there will be a test after. We take off, meet up with JoeJoe. I pull over in Navarre to get a couple of caps. JoeJoe walks up and hands me a box. What in the world ? Folks it’s a box of one hundred caps ! Who on God’s green earth has a box of a hundred stem caps outside of a motorcycle repair shop ?  Well if it’s a Sandie and its JoeJoe there ya go. I take two, I could have filled my pockets but then what do I do with them.

We have breakfast at Andy D’s Roadhouse in Milton. Sandy’s choice and a good one it is. We go for a short jaunt in the Blackwater. Those of you familiar with my history with the Blackwater know it was a while ago. But do ya think the Sandies have forgotten, not a damn chance ? Go over the bridge and some comedian will make a remark like “Hey George don’t forget to raise your feet “.  Or a “ Yes the launch of The SS Wing “.

On the way home I suggest we do an overnighter. Take the train from Mobile to New Orleans in the morning and return that night. Spend the night before and after in Mobile, folks seemed to really  liked the idea, well except one, Bobby . It seems while in his Mom’s womb Bobby  must have suffered some kind of train trauma, at least I think so. Bobby was quite adamant that he would not be on board the Mardi Gras Express with his fellow Sandies. Well its early, we can only bring that famous Sandie grind em Down. Sides a trip without Bobby just ain’t a real Sandie Adventure.

I want to especially  thank Sandy S, JoeJoe for the fabulous pictures.

Next Saturday the  Sandies are going to Andalusia to eat Bar B Que. Ken C  has graciously volunteered to do  The Cat Herding Duties..  I will send out the details as they come available.

It was one great day of time spent with friends, ate some very good food and rode some outstanding roads all with people you enjoy being with.