After a late night of visiting with family and friends, it’s great to sleep in today; no alarm.  I get up, grab a cup of my mother-in-law’s coffee, which is always great, always hot.  I get a load of laundry done and get some writing done, while catching up with my mother-in-law, Dani, and sister-in-law, Crystal.

Terron must get all those bugs and road grime off the bikes, so he’s outside with lots of suds, washing away.  After both bikes are clean, it’s then time for him to rip apart a bike (What is it with men always needing to take things apart?).  This time, it’s mine again, so that he can figure out why my heated hand grips are not working.

After days of sitting on my bike, I hit the road for a run, even though it’s 95 degrees outside!  I get a few miles in.  It feels good to get some exercise!

We run a few errands and then get a text from a friend that he’s off work and in the brewery up the street.  Sure, we’ll pop in for a beer!  We all grab a beer and I text Dani and Crystal and they walk over to join us.  Before long, Mark’s son, Keith, joins us and then his daughter Meg arrives with her wife Becky.  It’s really great to just sit and visit with this group.  Mark and Terron have known each other since high school and it’s just great to see him and catch up.

This is a local brewery that we’re and it does not serve food, so you’re allowed to bring in what you’d like.  Before long, Mark’s kids head next door and bring back sandwiches.

Terron is dead set on having Jim’s Ribs Haven. (infamous in Terron’s world)  He runs off to run that last errand of the day; buy a new GoPro mount for the bike and I order the ribs for dinner, asking the woman what she can offer me, a non rib-eater.  I place our order: 2 racks of ribs, French fries and smoked turkey.  Then the fun part; Mark drives me to pick up the food in his 1969 GTO!  This is a classic!  All original!  I laugh as I put my lap belt on!  This is truly old school!  Thanks Mark!

We head home to eat dinner and then move on to the next ‘must have’ back in Terron’s home town:  Whitey’s Ice Cream!  Crystal and I take orders and return with Turtle Sundays for the two of us, a Hot Fudge Moose Tracks Sunday for Dani and a Turtle Malt for Terron.  YUM!

I am so stuffed!  But I know this is the way it is every time we come back to Terron’s home town of Rock Island.  He always has a list of foods that he must eat, every time he’s here.   My food coma lulls me right to sleep, seconds after my head hits the pillow.