Biking Week of January 13-19

Attention cyclists:  If anyone would like to step up and lead a ride Thursday or Friday of this week, please let me know where you'd like to ride, the time, lunch plans, etc. and I'll post it here.  (I will be volunteering for the Songwriter Fest in Seaside these two afternoons and not available to lead.)

Sunday, January 13
Hey gang, I promised I'd try some weekend rides, so we are trying a Sunday ride to see how many are interested.   If you go to church Sunday morning, perhaps you can do an early service so that you can join us afterwards.  If you go Saturday night or not at all, no problem.

We'll meet at Clement Taylor Park on Calhoun Avenue (Google it) for the Old Destin ride at 1PM.  We'll stick to a one hour ride, so we can get back to La Famiglia on the Harbor (they have a second location there now:  http://www.lafamigliadestin.com/locations/) in time to order off the lunch menu before it switches over to dinner at 3PM.  (This won't allow for much hanging around the old Mattie Kelly Plantation site...we'll save that for another time.)  LaFamiglia has an awesome lunch menu (not on their website) with a variety of paninos (yes, not paninis) and salads and pasta dishes (noodles, lasagna, ravioli, etc.) ranging from about $7.50 - $10.00.

This will be a really late lunch or a really early dinner.  So adjust your meal times to accommodate it.  If you are a strict 7AM breakfast/noon lunch/6PM dinner person, this might not work for you.  (But we hope you can be flexible and join us!)

I'm not sure how traffic will be doing this ride on a Sunday, so we'll give it a go to find out!  We do have sidewalk much/most of the route.

Please RSVP in the comment section if you are interested.


Update:  Rained here, is still raining in other parts of the area...not sure if it will continue on and off.  So we are still "on" for Happy Hour at 4PM, whether that ends up being outside or inside, and dinner to follow for anyone who chooses.  If you don't see this update and show up at my place, you will have choices:  hang with me for a while till Happy Hour, bike anyway and meet us at Happy Hour, or meet us later at 4PM.
Tuesday, January 15
We are trying a dinner ride today!  I told you we'd "shake it up" this season, so we'll be doing some different scheduling.

Meet at my rental at 2:30PM and we will ride Scenic 98 (and hope that no pedestrian knocks me off of my bike and breaks my other wrist) and have dinner afterwards at Pompano Joe's.  Happy Hour starts at 4PM with $1 drafts and $3.50 wine.  To get those prices, though, we have to do Happy Hour out on the patio.  Inside drinks cost more.  (My rental is literally a 2 min. drive from PJoe's, so we can put bikes back on cars and drive or walk over after we ride.)  The plan is to relax at Happy Hour for a while, then go inside and have dinner.  To get a table outside, we'll need to be there by 4PM start.  I imagine we'd be doing dinner between 5-6PM, depending upon how long we Happy Hour!

Many of you know where my rental this season is, but I hesitate to post it publicly, as anyone (like anyone in the world) can find this blog and read it.  So if you don't know where it is, please email or call me.  I'll give you the address and directions or you can Google it.

Note:  If any of you have golf Tuesdays or other activities that conflict with the ride time, consider joining us for Happy Hour and/or dinner!

RSVP in the comments so we know who to expect!


Ok gang, let's see if we can spice up the usual "ride-and-lunch" schedule this season!