Ride to eat, eat to ride!

Last night I met up with some friends from the local CMA chapters for one of the chapter's monthly dinner ride.  With the time change, we had plenty of daylight to meet and ride to a Hometown Buffet for supper.  It was the Wings of Eagles Chapter dinner ride, and we were joined by not only some San Diego Gospel Riders members, but two guests from a CMA chapter in British Columbia, Canada!  They are touring the South-West for a few months and met one of our members at church.  The bikes were the traditional mix-mainly Harley-Davidsons with a couple of Gold Wings and metrics.  Maybe the restaurant of choice was too old-fashioned for our sport bike riding members? :-)

8 bikes were the initial group, with 3 passengers for a total of eleven in the pack.  One member had to take a phone call, and he and a few others met us at the restaurant.  It was a good time-all told we filled up two full tables and overflowed to a nearby booth.  Pretty good chow with a decent variety, plenty of desserts and a TWO soft serve ice cream machines.  The ride home wasn't bad either-although it was after 9 PM by the time we left, the night wasn't too cold.

To top it off, in less than two weeks we have the other chapter's dinner ride! We have joked that CMA really stands for "constantly munching anything" because we do seem to ride to eat, and eat to ride while we are out ministering and fellowshipping on our motorcycles.