MOAL 2nd Sat Ride-2-Eat, 14June25

[HSVPhil]

Ten days until the 2nd Saturday Ride-2-Eat at the Shoals Shack in St Florian in NW AL. Hope you’ll accept the outdoor picnic tables for some tasty luncheon fare. We last visited in August of ’24, and the Shack deserves another club outing. We recently test rode my route from HSV and enjoyed a delicious Bella burger & fries and the daily special, a big Ribeye sandwich. I hope the weather will be dryer than May’s ride to Cooter Brown’s last month. I’m hoping to arrive just after they open at 1100, but it’s hard to predict. We’ll be departing with Full Fuel from the vintage motorcycle breakfast location at the Blue Plate Cafe at 3210 Governors Drive at 0830 on 14 June. Feel free to Drive\ride Your Own Ride to meet us in St Florian at 4675 CR-47 around 1100 if that’s your preferred ride of the day. PM me if you’d like your own copy of my Garmin .gpx file [since MOA doesn’t support such useful file sharing formats].

Keep the rubber side down in the meantime...
Ciao, HSV-Phil & HSV-Karen
mailto: president@bmwmoal.org

 

[HSVPhil]

We had six riders attend the MOAL 2nd Saturday Ride-2-Eat in St Florian; it just didn’t work out according to My Plan. Five BMWs left HSV as scheduled and only encountered some scattered showers and sunshine headed west along the northern tier of Alabama. We even arrived earlier than 1100, so I wasn’t surprised to find an empty parking lot. However, upon closer inspection, the staff was AWOL doing a special catering event. DOH! Luckily for Phil, across the road was Pop’s BBQ that has been there all along {waiting for our attention}. We left the bikes where they stood and sauntered over to Pop’s for some good BBQ [just not as good as Cooter Brown’s Rib Shack last month]! Upon riding home down I-65 towards HSV, several of us just barely beat a blustery thunderstorm so Phil, Karen + Tony got some fuel under the cover of Buc-ee’s eXpansive roof, along with many distressed drivers. The place was totally jammed. We encountered some more heavy rains headed east on I-565 into Huntsville, but we arrived to dry streets in town. Here’s hoping the weather will improve greatly on July 12th as we head down to the Cajun Connection in Winfield, AL. Another local seafood favorite for those in the know. Hope some of y’all Feed Readers will magically appear in Lebanon, TN next week. It’s gonna be a “Really Big Shoe!” as Ed Sullivan might say. Ciao, HSV-Phil {CC-05 president} mit HSV-Karen {Alabama’s Airmarshal}

 

[omega man]

You are doing it Phil- That’s what counts. It’s some effort to organize rides…… and find interesting destinations with food stops.
Hopefully more can pick up on your organizational cues and follow with rides of their own.
OM