FINAL REPORT FROM FLORIDA

Before you see our "travelogue" from Florida, on behalf of the Wednesday Night Riders I want to offer our condolences to Greg Conway.  His mother, Kathy, passed away recently after a courageous battle with cancer.  Kathy and Leo were clients of mine and I always enjoyed the time I was able to serve them.  Kathy always impressed me as being a hard working farm wife.  Besides helping with the milking operation, she also served meals and did housework for her family.  She always was one to welcome me when I went out to the Conway farm.  She will certainly be missed by her family and friends.  God bless.

Julie and I will be returning to the "frozen tundra" this week.  Due to some very comfortable weather during the last two months, we were able to rack up just over 3,000 miles on the trike (a new record for our Florida trips).  We did play less golf, but the rides and the good times we had with the motorcycle groups down here made up for it.  I did shoot my pistols once each week at the indoor range here.  I think I have improved enough now that instead of just scaring an intruder, I actually may be able to nick him.

I have always been fascinated with highway bridges, and believe me, Florida has a bunch of them.  What follows are a couple of videos of the trike passing over them.  Since the blog only allows a small amount of video time (around 20 sec.), I'll try to do the best to show the bridge work and water.

Besides bridges, we also navigated some of the more scenic county roads.  Here's a couple of short videos of some we rode.  By the way, I didn't get lost this time!

As in previous years, we made a trip over to St. George Island.  On the way we stopped at a place on the bay called Indian Pass.  This place draws a lot of fishermen.

THEY DIDN'T SEEM TO BE HAVING MUCH LUCK THAT DAY

Indian Pass also serves as a shuttle for people, bicycles, cars, etc. for 

tourists who want to venture over to St. Vincent Island.

ST VINCENT ISLAND

Video of the shuttle in operation.

 This trip is also a RTE, and this is the place we stop at on St. George Island to have the best po-boy shrimp sandwiches in the area.

THE NAME GIVES IT AWAY

Speaking of eats, there is a new place in PCB that Jim G and ChucK would never leave.  Incredible layered donuts (over 50 varieties) and too many kinds of coffee to be able to name.  The place is packed for the breakfast crowd.

PARLOR DOUGHNUTS

THEY ARE EVEN MOBILE!

And check out the sign in the men's room!

When we get settled back in Waukon, I'll set a date for our PMS get-together.  This year I'm thinking about going to Uptown Grill because of the available tv.

In the meantime....