20 June 09 Ride to the Bluebonnet Cafe!
Write-up by Jill Severe Pictures by Skip Surre
Eighteen Riders and Co-Riders met at the Exxon at 46 and 281 for a breakfast ride up to the Bluebonnet Café in Marble Falls. With sunny skies and expected afternoon temperatures climbing towards 100, everyone decided to “wing” it early and get home before we melted!
Skip Surre was the Ride Captain for this ride, and gave a Ride Briefing to refresh everyone on riding procedures, especially important considering we were going up 281 in an expeditious manner to get to the Bluebonnet for breakfast and coffee! Traffic on 281 can be a mixed situation…fast, slow, turning and passing. Organizing into two groups of 5 bikes and with Road Captains in the Lead and Drag position, we headed north. Fortunately it appears we were earlier than most of the traffic heading north and we arrived at the Bluebonnet without harrowing experiences AND to find parking available and no lengthy line!
Girl talk! How does this GPS fit?
Some of our group were “first-timers” for breakfast at the Bluebonnet…including me! During the short wait, those who had been lucky enough to sample a Bluebonnet breakfast passed along suggestions…one often heard reminder was about the size of the pancakes…BIG so don’t order too many! Of course one Co-Rider didn’t worry about pancakes but just started the day with banana crème pie…good source of potassium I was told! I think only one Co-Rider was sharp enough to figure out how to have dessert for breakfast but I bet next time we go, more than one Chapter U participant will have dessert first!
Everyone gets in on the act! Just arrived at the Bluebonnet.
Takes a while to get all the gear put a way and the group moving!
John Fryar on his first ride with U! Now where did they all go!
Inside the Bluebonnet. Lots of parking for a change!
Breakfast was full of lively chatter: talk about upcoming plans to go to Wing Ding, updates on family and jobs, plans for other summer fun! Finally after the coffee cups were emptied and so were the plates, the bills were paid, and some adjourned to check out the lawn ornament shop on the corner while others adjourned to the parking lot to check out the latest chrome and needed gizmos on the bikes. Eventually everyone saddled up, some to head straight home or to run an errand, others to continue home on back roads scoped out by Skip Surre! All of us were home well safe and sound well before the temperatures soared. Another great ride with Chapter U! Come join the summer fun, won’t “U?”
Nope, not a lynch mob! Nice pic of Diane, Ida and Luis!
Ron & Maria Delaughter. Diane & Court and Beth Surre.
Steve & Susan Ochs. Guy Custer raising his hand!
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