Crabby Bill's, St. Cloud - October 30, 2010

We were six for breakfast in Plant City, Florida this morning, although only three were prepared to ride.  Bill, Boyd and Robert had other plans for the day.  J.T., Lloyd and I set out about 9:00 a.m. with the general goal of lunch at Crabby Bill's in St. Cloud.

The first leg of the ride found us meandering over to Fun Bike Center where we knew Boyd had an appointment to test ride a motorcycle.  Finding that we had arrived ahead of Boyd, we convinced the salesman to put a sold tag on the bike in question and awaited his arrival. Unfortunately, the ever vigilant Boyd had seen our Wings in the parking lot and had no reaction to the sold tag. Nuts. Maybe next time.

As Boyd left on his test ride, J.T., Lloyd and I continued our twisted route towards St. Cloud.

Our second stop was at the Big "Toho" Marina on the north shore of Lake Tohopekaliga (Sleeping Tiger) in Kissimmee.

Lake Toho sits on the northern end of the Kissimmee Chain of Lakes and is the beginning of the Great Kissimmee River System which flows south to Lake Okeechobee and on into the Everglades.

A nice little municipal park sits next to the marina and includes a covered play area for children, an ice cream shop made from an old caboose and air boat rides ($30 per hour per person).

Leaving the marina, we headed over to Crabby Bill's on East Lake Tohopekaliga in St. Cloud.

The dining room has a view of the marina and the lake. Lloyd and J.T. enjoyed the scenery while we waited for lunch.

At least I think he is enjoying the view.

Hey, is that Crabby Eddie?

We all selected the hamburger for lunch - a good choice!

After lunch, we headed back to Old Kissimmee for a quick stop at a cigar bar where all three of us picked up some great wooden cigar boxes - buy one, get one free and the most expensive one was $3.00.

We decided to head home from there via the quickest route in order to catch the late afternoon football games.

It was another great ride (145 miles), good food and great friends.

Gunny