Sister's and Friends, Hume, Mo.

You see that tan building behind the stop sign?  Its the restaurant that was the object of today's Romeo Rider ride.  But more interestingly do you see the grain bin to its right?  Its part of the restaurant.....  Its called Sister's and Friends....



We are in Hume, Missouri, a little town about 70 miles South of Kansas City along the Kansas and Missouri border.

The aging pictures on the wall in the restaurant show coal mining activities and the loading of rail cars with the mined coal.   The train tracks still go North to South thru the center of town.  But I didn't see any coal activities today...  That probably ended many years ago..



This picture was taken in the grain bin dining room.  The Romeos were in attendance in numbers that filled the entire room.

Its hard to get an accurate count, because some come for breakfast and arrive early in the morning, and others come for brunch and still others for lunch arriving around 11 AM.  Mostly the bikers are gone by noon before the usual town folk crowd would arrive.

They felt that there were 60 to 70 Romeos during the morning, in addition to the normal local crowd..  That should make a big difference in this tiny community.

I have to admit that I didn't have any sensation that we were in the grain bin when I was eating my scrambled eggs, sausage and biscuits and gravy #1 breakfast...  I think it was $5.49  and if I had ordered ham it was a dollar more.



As usual, the picture that I am in is of my back, as I am the round fellow at the left of the picture...  But my son across from me seems intently listening to my line of bull.....  Even the waitress in the middle of the picture had a Romeo T shirt on....

I didn't have any lunch after that...  But as I was leaving town, looking at the outside of the establishment, I realized that we had to be out in the steel bin...  I scratched my head at that one...

Today my son Ben came over at about 8:30 and rode with me out of Overland Park down the divided highway of US 69.  We moved right along in the cool but brightly sunny morning.  We exited the good road at the town of Prescott, which is on the Kansas side of the state line, but sister to Hume.

It was rather cool as we left town with readings of 51 on the bike temperature gauge.  I adorned my full finger gloves right at the start of the ride, and after about 10 miles, I put an additional liner in my jacket as the wind up my sleeves was becoming quite cold.

On our way back home, Ben and I enjoyed a leisurely ride thru the towns of La Cygne, and then thru the country side to Osawatomi, and then Paola where I was last week in the rain.. It was drop dead gorgeous in the low 70s with little wind.  We didn't want to come home....

But our freedom came to an end by about 3 PM as we had daily activities and responsibilities to pursue, but we hope the weather will continue so we can do this again.......

But the forecast for next week is for much colder, and Loyce wants to go to a quilt show up in Des Moines..........  But this day will be one for the memories, especially because Ben rode with me to enjoy it.....

Retired Rod

Pictures from the Romeo weekly ride web site...