Sunday ride

Today, Donna and I, along with Ben and Sherrill and Jim met at Gabby's for breakfast. Had a good time with good food. Afterwords, Jim departed. He was on the rune and weather forecast was less than promising. Didn't want to have such a rare bike out in the elements for too long. Also doesn't want to run up the mileage.

The rest of us took off for parts south and east. It was somewhat cool but it did not stop this from being a great day to get some mileage in on the bikes. Headed through Indianola east, then south through Melcher-Dallas and then down to Chariton. We stopped at Red Haw state park. This is a neat park. We found a shelter that I think we will rent some time this summer and have a chapter picnic. This should be a really good time in a great location.

From there, we went down around lake Rathbun and on to Centerville where I wanted a picture of a sign for the Daily Iowegian. I am sure our friends in other states, especially in Nebraska will love to see that picture. After the picture, we headed on to what had been one of our primary goals for this ride, a lunch at the Millerton Cafe.

We saw an article for this cafe on the channel 8 news and decided we had to try it out. Harry and Bev had already been there and told us it was worth going to but we had no idea what we were in for.

Ben, Sherrill and Donna had the hot beef sandwich. A dinner platter with a sandwich filled with wonderful pulled roast beef and a huge pile of real mashed potato's covered in homemade gravy. This was $5. I opted for the chicken and noodle dinner. What I got was a huge plate with a thick layer of mashed potato's covered with homemade chicken and noodles. This dish had excellent flavor. I also got 2 sides and my drink was included. All this for $8. I do not know how they do this. All this would have been half again as much here in Des Moines. Ben and Sherrill shared a piece of Reese's peanut butter pie and I had the gooseberry. Both were excellent. Homemade crusts and all. I saw a piece of apple as well and it looked really good. Only drawback I saw was no meringue on the pies. Still worth having.

On top of all this, I don't think it took 5 minutes to get our food. Speed of service in no way detracted from the goodness of the food.

We saw some other dishes. The tenderloin is huge and they said it had excellent flavor (Harry and Bev concur). The stuff pork chop looked very good as well. Breakfasts are cheap. Coffee and tea were only 75 cents.

The staff was most friendly and very appreciative of our visit. This is definitely a place to try out if you are in the area. It is even worth going to if you are not in the area. A place to go out of your way to go to.