Toystoretom
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Goes to Pianoman !!!!!!
When it smashed into his Clearview Windshield it exploded and pretty much ended all chances of him ever being able to see through it on the rest of our ride today. Ha.....
Dave and I rode out to Lexington Missouri today to get a few of the world's greasiest Made Rite sandwiches. We were pleasantly surprised to find that the State of Misery had repaved old 24 Hwy just for us. This is a very scenic route that runs right along the Missouri River and is one of our favorite rides, the new pavement just made it better. On our way out there we were met with a couple of sport bikes being chased by what appeared to be a local Kansas City sports car club. In the lead was a new Corvette followed by some high dollar Infinity and Nissan junk and several BMW's. The sport bikes looked like they were having no trouble leaving the cars for dead on that narrow twisty road. Crap.... Dave and I probably could have turned around and added to their torment but we had Made Rites calling.
So we get into Lexington and much to our surprise we found the Made Rite stand was closed on Sundays. I thought Dave was going to cry. We started checking around and many of the local "joints" were either closed for the day or had moved. Now, I know Lexington is a small town but wouldn't you think that if you moved your restaurant you would leave a sign on the old location telling people where you went? Dave stopped a local ( a very nice lady) and asked where our favorite Mex hangout went to and she looked at us like we were retards. "It's down by the theater now". Well, why didn't we think of that?
So off we rode and found this cool place instead.... Mulligan's, an Irish pub to be sure. Turns out it was originally buily in the 1850's by a German dude named John Goehner. John made a living by making headstones and monuments and some were still there.
I have some pics and a lithograph from 1857 of John's business.
If you get into Lexington check this place out. Some very cool Civil War and steamboat pics on the inside. I had a great Chicago Style hot dog and Dave went after the very spicy Goehner Dog (named after the building's original owner).
They also turned us on to a Civil War museum that had to do with the Battle of Lexington in 1862? All I know is that the Confederates kicked the Union Boy's butts in that one. We are going to ride back sometime this summer and check that out, we just didn't have time today.
I'm sure Dave can add much more... just a good time by two old fools (the best kind).
When it smashed into his Clearview Windshield it exploded and pretty much ended all chances of him ever being able to see through it on the rest of our ride today. Ha.....
Dave and I rode out to Lexington Missouri today to get a few of the world's greasiest Made Rite sandwiches. We were pleasantly surprised to find that the State of Misery had repaved old 24 Hwy just for us. This is a very scenic route that runs right along the Missouri River and is one of our favorite rides, the new pavement just made it better. On our way out there we were met with a couple of sport bikes being chased by what appeared to be a local Kansas City sports car club. In the lead was a new Corvette followed by some high dollar Infinity and Nissan junk and several BMW's. The sport bikes looked like they were having no trouble leaving the cars for dead on that narrow twisty road. Crap.... Dave and I probably could have turned around and added to their torment but we had Made Rites calling.
So we get into Lexington and much to our surprise we found the Made Rite stand was closed on Sundays. I thought Dave was going to cry. We started checking around and many of the local "joints" were either closed for the day or had moved. Now, I know Lexington is a small town but wouldn't you think that if you moved your restaurant you would leave a sign on the old location telling people where you went? Dave stopped a local ( a very nice lady) and asked where our favorite Mex hangout went to and she looked at us like we were retards. "It's down by the theater now". Well, why didn't we think of that?
So off we rode and found this cool place instead.... Mulligan's, an Irish pub to be sure. Turns out it was originally buily in the 1850's by a German dude named John Goehner. John made a living by making headstones and monuments and some were still there.
I have some pics and a lithograph from 1857 of John's business.
If you get into Lexington check this place out. Some very cool Civil War and steamboat pics on the inside. I had a great Chicago Style hot dog and Dave went after the very spicy Goehner Dog (named after the building's original owner).
They also turned us on to a Civil War museum that had to do with the Battle of Lexington in 1862? All I know is that the Confederates kicked the Union Boy's butts in that one. We are going to ride back sometime this summer and check that out, we just didn't have time today.
I'm sure Dave can add much more... just a good time by two old fools (the best kind).