This week, freshly back from Michigan, I met seven other members of our group in downtown Plant City for breakfast and a ride. The morning weather was clear, dry and promised to be very warm, very soon. The destination for the ride was Gander Mountain to scout for camping equipment for our upcoming motorcycle tour.The purpose of the ride, as always, was the ride itself.
When finished with breakfast, Bill, Lloyd, Eddie and I turned our motorcycles towards Lake Mary while Robert, Scott and Bob K. headed off to do something more mundane. Today's route took us across many familiar and favorite roads until we reached Astatula where we turned east to approach Lake Mary from far less busy and more interesting roads. Along the way, we ran across J.T. and Debbie with another group of cyclists heading to Daytona Beach.
We arrived at the Gander Mountain sometime after noon. By then the temperature had reached 88 degrees (that would be 31+ to you, Brian).
Bill, Eddie & Lloyd head for the entrance (pay no attention to the UFO approaching from the upper left)
Gander Mountain is a great store for all you outdoor types and we spent over an hour inside looking at all the neat gadgets they had to offer.
Leaving the store, Bill decided he needed to head home as expeditiously as possible so he left the group to return on I-4. Meanwhile, Eddie, Lloyd and I backtracked our outbound route with a short detour to Mary's Kountry Kitchen near Lake Jem for lunch. One more stop was made on the way home at the Lakeland Fun Bike Center and, as is more and more often the case, found nothing we needed to buy.
I made it home about 4:30 p.m. having covered 219 miles under warm Florida skies. Join us next week for another adventure.
Gunny
1 comment:
It was a good ride over and very enjoyable time with friends. The Gander Mountain store was very interesting, but I think their prices were a bit on the high side. I made it home at 3 pm with 196 miles on the trip meter. Talk about hot!!! I had to take an emergency dip in the pool to recover from the heat.
-- Ace
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