Another luncheon

Have you ever been in Gower, Mo.? Where??? Well neither had I!

Its up there where the green arrow with a B in it is...  Too small to have a name on the map, unless you zooooooooooom in to the very smallest view....   Its 61 miles up there thru the city, including down town...

We left early this morning after I got it straightened out which McDonalds the fellows were at....  There were some of the guys at two different locations and naturally I went to the wrong one... Those guys weren't going today but rather are going tomorrow down by Wichita....  I sped back over to the right meeting place and there was really only one guy there, but he was my good friend Al, so that was fine.

We decided to go around the outskirts of town on the west side using the outer beltway 435... That added a bunch of miles, but we were fresh, and it was morning and cooler..... about 85, so that was good to go...

The downtown was rather small, and this was the store front of the restaurant.

We parked across the street, as there was only a parking lot on the South side, as the street only had one row of buildings.

But ounce inside, the restaurant was kind of like all the other places you've been to in really small towns....

As usual, I'm in the picture but with my back to the photographer.  I'm the guy with suspenders on behind the fellow making the victory V or what ever he meant by that gesture...   But this shows the inside of the restaurant...

The original web site is here, if you are interested in the rest of the pictures..

By the time we were all talked out and outside looking at folk's bikes getting ready to go, it had become kind of hotter..  I had 96 on the dash of the scooter as we pulled away, and we were 60 miles away....

This time I suggested that we go right down the center of town like the map above shows, and I led the way at about 75 miles per...  Needed that wind to cool down some...

We made it down into the North part of Overland Park, and Al pulled up along side of me and said he needed a drink really bad....

So we found an Air Conditioned McDonalds to pull into for that drink.... So what does he get?  Hot Coffee!!! And a glass of Ice Water.  When you have that coffee habit, you need your afternoon cup!

And of course I was talking a mile a minute, with my hands waving away in front of me, and managed to upset my very large cup of diet dr pepper.... down my front into my pants and onto the floor....  Well, I wasn't hot any more.....!

When we got back home, my new camera was here, in a very smashed box... Eww, but the packing peanuts took the smashes and the camera seemed fine...  you don't get as much as you used to with these cameras, as there was only a USB cord about 18 inches long and a little wall wart charger..  Oh, and a little cloth lanyard.  There was a DVD that supposedly has the instructions on it and a getting started booklet that explains how to put the battery in and plug in the cable.

It has a bunch more features and a touch screen to select things, like an Iphone..  tonight I went over and bought a 16 gb SD card to store the files on as they are 14.1 megapixels.  I think that will be about 5 mb for each photo.... Good land, I remember when we had 160k on a one sided floppy....

I know, for a lot of you this zooming all over the country looking for really out of the way eating joints isn't too interesting, but for a bunch of retired old fogeys it becomes the height of excitement.....  I know, it doesn't take too much......LOL

Retired Rod