To heck with the ride, how's their ....

[Blueberry]

I did the Tarwheels Bikefest Rural Heritage Tour Century (NC) two years in a row and man...do they know how to stock a rest stop! Different varieties of homemade baked goodies at each one. It made me want to stop a lot more than I should have!!

Oh, and our MS150 (Central NC) had Carrabas cater the dinner on the first day. YUM!

Man, I'm doing that MS ride next year!!! The meals in New Bern was NOT great last year (at least for the meal I ate...). The rest stops were awesome, though. A couple of years ago, one of the MS groups sponsored a rest stop at Bike Fest. They had a chocolate fountain. Heaven on earth on a ride.

CA

[lauraelmore1033]

Tour de Lopez is a fabulous, scenic ride with home made baked goodies at the rest stops and a great barbeque at the end. The whole island shows up for the bbq, giving it quite a festive,welcoming feel.

The Levenworth Alefest ride is another fabulous, scenic ride, but the bowl of tomato soup at the end was a bit of a let down....

The spaghetti dinner at the mid point of the STP was the most delicious I'd ever tasted, in spite of the fact that the woman serving it reached into the sodden, lukewarm mass of pasta with her bare hands and slopped it onto the plate with an unappealing plop. I think that was just a matter of being ravenously hungry.

[Thorn]

I think that was just a matter of being ravenously hungry.

We call that the "Dog Food Principle"--after exercise, they could serve you dog food and you'd claim it was gourmet

That said, there's been some post-ride spaghetti that even the dog food principle just couldn't save.