01-16-10 Breakfast ride

[cactusjack]

Yesterday BillZ, Toophun and I got together for a little morning breakfast ride. We met in the town of Maricopa, which is SW of where I live and kind of halfway between where Toophun and I are and where BillZ lives. We had breakfast at the Headquarters Cafe, which has been there for over 50 years. John Wayne used to eat there years ago. After breakfast, we rode over to the town of Eloy, about halfway between Phoenix and Tucson. The best way to describe Eloy is to picture a town after a nearby nuclear blast. Deserted streets, nothing happening. You get the idea.

We turned at Eloy and headed back toward Coolidge. Bill bailed to head west to his house and Toophun and I continued through Coolidge and back home on Hwy 87 across the rez (Gila River Indian Reservation).

While I was waiting for Toophun at our meeting place, I took this picture of the sun rising over the San Tan Mountains, which are only a couple of miles SE of my house.

It was a good ride, albeit a short one. My wife had to leave town unexpectedly to attend a family funeral in Idaho, so I had to get home to make the preparations for the Cardinals game. I think I prepared more for it than the Cards did.