Cafe On The Route

**Zen** · 03-24-2008, 10:09 PM

This place was featured in this episode on the Food Network and it looks fabulous! Has anyone in the neighborhood of Kansas ever been there?

**firenze11** · 03-25-2008, 04:52 AM

I don't know why I read the title as "Chafe on the Route," I guess I know what I'm worried about this spring/summer.

But that place looks great! I love the history of the landmark with Jesse James and Cole Younger robbing it, and the food sounds good. I have always wanted to travel Route 66. Road Trip!

**Zen** · 03-25-2008, 09:21 AM

chafe on the route

**7rider** · 03-25-2008, 11:14 AM

A "flapjack ribeye"??

If a flapjack is a pancake...I've seen blueberries in them...chocolate chips...even raisins...but never a ribeye!

(Okay...I know I'm totally off base!)

But "chafe on the route" reminds me of my advocacy days...
My group was high-lighting an on-road bike route from Cape Ann (Massachusetts, north of Boston) to Cape Cod. The south-of-Boston route is currently marked as "Bike Route 1", or the Claire Saltonstall Bikeway. We wanted to finish the markings and make it a true "Cape to Cape" bike route.
So, we had t-shirts made up..."Cape to Cape"...but the font used made it look more like "Cafe to Cafe"....so we were forever joking that our goal was just to pedal from one cafe to another...eating our way through Massachusetts! Hah. (okay...back to work)

**Bad JuJu** · 03-25-2008, 11:19 AM

Originally Posted by 7rider

"Cafe to Cafe"....to pedal from one cafe to another...eating our way through Massachusetts! Hah.[/COLOR]

Not that there's anything wrong with that!

**sundial** · 03-25-2008, 11:25 AM

So Zen, when are you going to chafe your way through Kansas?

**7rider** · 03-25-2008, 11:32 AM

Originally Posted by Bad JuJu

Not that there's anything wrong with that!

It seemed like an admirable goal to me!

**MM_QFC!** · 03-25-2008, 02:32 PM

Originally Posted by 7rider

But "chafe on the route" reminds me of my advocacy days...
My group was high-lighting an on-road bike route from Cape Ann (Massachusetts, north of Boston) to Cape Cod. The south-of-Boston route is currently marked as "Bike Route 1", or the Claire Saltonstall Bikeway. We wanted to finish the markings and make it a true "Cape to Cape" bike route.
So, we had t-shirts made up..."Cape to Cape"...but the font used made it look more like "Cafe to Cafe"....so we were forever joking that our goal was just to pedal from one cafe to another...eating our way through Massachusetts! Hah. (okay...back to work)

on a similar note: when I was training for my first AIDS ride, which was called Ride for a Reason, we'd always meet for breakfast somewhere first ((and usually go for a beer/snacks after), so that we were soon joking about training for "WIDE" for a reason!

**Zen** · 03-25-2008, 02:58 PM

Originally Posted by 7rider

our goal was just to pedal from one cafe to another...eating our way through Massachusetts!

I would sign up for that

**Trek420** · 03-25-2008, 03:41 PM

Originally Posted by firenze11

I have always wanted to travel Route 66. Road Trip!

Me too. Road trip!!

**kelownagirl** · 03-25-2008, 06:19 PM

My ex took my son on a road trip down route 66 in his corvette last summer. The little guy thought it was all very cool.

**Trek420** · 03-25-2008, 06:24 PM

I meant a route 66 bike tour.

**kelownagirl** · 03-25-2008, 06:46 PM

Why can't I put a happy face here?

**firenze11** · 03-26-2008, 05:10 AM

Originally Posted by Trek420

I meant a route 66 bike tour.

That's what I was thinking, but then the full distance (2,450 miles) was a bit daunting to me. Although a TE Tour de 66 would probably be awesome. Then we could all travel from cafe to cafe while avoiding chafing and write a brilliant book about it to re-coup the money it took to do the ride in the first place.

I think I've finally stir crazy, the snow's got to melt soon, right? Right?

I think Rt. 66 runs through my family's teeny tiny town in New Mexcio. My Grandfather used to run a Phillips 66 gas station and hotel there.

**Trek420** · 03-26-2008, 05:15 AM

Originally Posted by firenze11

That's what I was thinking, but then the full distance (2,450 miles) was a bit daunting to me. Although a TE Tour de 66 would probably be awesome. Then we could all travel from cafe to cafe while avoiding chafing and write a brilliant book about it to re-coup the money it took to do the ride in the first place.

I think I've finally stir crazy, the snow's got to melt soon, right? Right?

I think Rt. 66 runs through my family's teeny tiny town in New Mexcio. My Grandfather used to run a Phillips 66 gas station and hotel there.

Sounds good! There's your book; group of strangers organize a 2,500 bike tour to re-discover your Grandpa's gas station.

I've only seen a bit of Route 66 in New Mexico and it is beautiful.

Wouldn't have to do the whole thing, or in parts.

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