Top_Speed1
Panama Canal Crosser
Saturday 10/10/15, the 1st of 2 RTE's
So this was to be my first of a 2X RTE, I knew what the ending was about, but some stupid little thing in my head wanted me to try this again. Here's my/our story....
Back a Month ago, "Full House" had made a RTE to Denny's Beer Barrel Pub. Once I heard this, a little birdie went off and said "HS!, that's the place where I had tried a burger challenge before!" (I failed however)... then my wheels were turning, saying to my stomach "You can do this, you just need the right mindset and prep!" (well, this time anyways).
*The pre-plan*
I was to meet Mike (Wine Guy) in Ellicottville at the EBC (Ellicottville Brewery Co) for a Sat afternoon cocktail hour on their deck, then have dinner there (this place is totally kick-ass all the way around). I couldn't land any lodging right in town, but I did get a MIcrotel about 15mi south in a town called Olean (NY).
Debbie was to accompany me, seems like ever since I got those darn fugly RDL seats, I have a new found riding pillion partner, slash love of my life. It's all good, she's really fun and at least on a short 1 night overstay, I knew she wouldn't pack the kitchen sink, and she went even lighter than myself! nice.
We arrived in Ellicottville only to find a traffic jam about 4-miles out. I was like "sure hope this is for a football game or something!". It wasn't. I saw signs of "Octoberfest Parking: $10 w free Bus ride into town!". Dang@! We finally weazled our way in, duck walking for more than an hour. DO I need tell? That sucks! EBC frontage....
Our snagged free parking which was about 200ft from EBC. Not bad at all, but now we needed to find Mike and tell him to forget this jam-packed town.
We arrive first in Olean at the Microtel, check-in, and I decide that it's time to start getting in shape. After-all, I needed to start working off some calories (relax, we just wrestled!)... plus Mike was not here yet anyways
....
Arrival of my buddy!.. and I greet him with a cold beer.
So Mike being from Canada eh?, he shuts his phone off when in the States. Hence, our communication breakdown. But, in that crowd^^, no way was he to be found!. I texted him hoping he would turn on his phone that we were going straight for our motel and re-making plans. He did turn on his phone and rec'd the re-plan just fine...
Sun going down on the POS Bimmer, notice the DD's next door, no stink'n Timmy Horton's for us!
Since I'm an equal opportunity rider, I show sum love to Michael's beautiful 2013 Feejer... (plus now that I have 4K resolution on my new phone) I thought it would be nice to show some image depth!)... I'm sure photobucket will compress and degrade it some, but it's still purdy!....
SO after drinking several beers for what was a "Motel Happy-hour", we ask the front desk clerk (who basically gave us complete run of the lounge area)... "Where's the best place in town for an upscale pub or eatery?" He quickly whips out about 3 choices, even prints us out directions and reviews! Wow, these gay guys down here are super nice! oh boy
I then tell Debbie to give me your best Andy salute!... she's like "what the heck are you talking about?". She just met Andy and Soozie at EOM 2 weeks prior. She loved the Geeks, probably cuz we are Geeks as well.
After remembering Andy and his antics, she politely gives me the Geek salute...
We chose the "Super Fun Center" to the desk clerk's overall best choice. He said it's a huge venue, has a bowling alley connected as well. I was like huh?" We went with it, he called us a cab and off we went. During our ride, the Cabbie takes us over to a Railroad Yard, where he starts giving us a tour and telling us that the Danzel Washington film "Unstoppable" was filmed here, well at least the beginning and Yard scenes were. Pretty darn cool!, I liked that flick and remembered it clearly.
Olean NY; "Unstoppable" Filming Video clip:
We immediately went towards the noise, but I was thinking "our restaurant of choice is here? wtf!?"...
We did find the restaurant, nice place. And, it's kinda hooked into a mini-mall with an entertainment complex. So, when in Olean, do as the locals do...so we did!
At this point, I've already had 8 beers, but Mike and I go for the bigg'ins anyways. These were wheat ale's with a citrus flavor. I'd say a little more beer tasting than a Blue Moon. Pretty tasty! Debbie just drinks water (aka Mich Ultras).
I knew I had the BBD (bigger better deal) coming up on Sunday, so I wanted to eat "light!". Yeah right!, I did order a salad, it just was bigger than expected.
Mike's happy and sporting his EOM '15 attire
After dinner, we did a few (I'll just say it was more than 1) shooters, we chose Blackhouse chilled, cuz Debbie will do that shot, so we made it ours as well. Mike then goes into the Alley, orders up a couple of games of roller bawl. We shoe-up with these little beauties...
Mike and Debbie setup the gig, man, it's been awhile since I bowled, now you take 3 images of your face in different poses like for a strike, gutter ball etc. Then when you roll one of those it proudly (shamefully) puts this image up for all to see. hmmm...
It was Mike, Deb then me. Probably wasn't going to be a real game with me being a close to 200 average bowler in my day, so I shot "beaver balls" or no thumb in the ball shots. I figured this would even the playing field somewhat. Mikey up first....
And Debbie has the 'play and pray game'...
ME shooting Beaver Balls, lol
We rolled 2 games, Wine Guy bought the rounds (bowling & shots). Overall, Mike almost kept up with me, Debbie, well let's just say she did hit 100 both times, but barely ;-) IT WAS A BLAST@! who woulda thought? bowling? crazy-fun times.
We get a taxi back to the Hotel, no tours, it's well past midnight at this time. Upon arriving back at our Microtel, we meet a few late nighters who see that we are having a "loud" fun time. They make friends with us, Mike whips out a 12 pack of Molsons.
Debbie says she can't do anymore, and I saw her eyeballs rolling around in her head. Good nite she says! (garbled). Mike and I carry on with our newly made friends. Holy cow, they were louder than us! So, the girl goes on to tell me that she love's strip clubs and getting lap dances. Her b/f says she just love tits. (his & her wording exactly). I kinda brush it off somewhat thinking Debbie may be still lurking around the corner, plus it wasn't going to look good if she did hear this!... and, it got worse!... next she tells me that she's still lactating and offers to show me! I'm like WFT! We are in the lounge area of the motel, Mike is shit faced, I am as well. Next conversation is about something that I can't remember (go figure) BUT!, it went back to her breasts, and her b/f goes on to tell me about he has them on his Corn Flakes every morning. Mike and I were laughing so hard, they were serious however and were not laughing. Got kinda weird to say the least....
Man, look at my eyebawlz, they look like 2 piss-holes in a snow bank!
We finished off Mike's 12-pak of fine Canadian beer, called it a night. That couple was even more crazier than myself, that IS scary. 'NS, and I have no idea what time it was, maybe 1ish.
TBC.........................
So this was to be my first of a 2X RTE, I knew what the ending was about, but some stupid little thing in my head wanted me to try this again. Here's my/our story....
Back a Month ago, "Full House" had made a RTE to Denny's Beer Barrel Pub. Once I heard this, a little birdie went off and said "HS!, that's the place where I had tried a burger challenge before!" (I failed however)... then my wheels were turning, saying to my stomach "You can do this, you just need the right mindset and prep!" (well, this time anyways).
*The pre-plan*
I was to meet Mike (Wine Guy) in Ellicottville at the EBC (Ellicottville Brewery Co) for a Sat afternoon cocktail hour on their deck, then have dinner there (this place is totally kick-ass all the way around). I couldn't land any lodging right in town, but I did get a MIcrotel about 15mi south in a town called Olean (NY).
Debbie was to accompany me, seems like ever since I got those darn fugly RDL seats, I have a new found riding pillion partner, slash love of my life. It's all good, she's really fun and at least on a short 1 night overstay, I knew she wouldn't pack the kitchen sink, and she went even lighter than myself! nice.
We arrived in Ellicottville only to find a traffic jam about 4-miles out. I was like "sure hope this is for a football game or something!". It wasn't. I saw signs of "Octoberfest Parking: $10 w free Bus ride into town!". Dang@! We finally weazled our way in, duck walking for more than an hour. DO I need tell? That sucks! EBC frontage....
Our snagged free parking which was about 200ft from EBC. Not bad at all, but now we needed to find Mike and tell him to forget this jam-packed town.
We arrive first in Olean at the Microtel, check-in, and I decide that it's time to start getting in shape. After-all, I needed to start working off some calories (relax, we just wrestled!)... plus Mike was not here yet anyways
Arrival of my buddy!.. and I greet him with a cold beer.
So Mike being from Canada eh?, he shuts his phone off when in the States. Hence, our communication breakdown. But, in that crowd^^, no way was he to be found!. I texted him hoping he would turn on his phone that we were going straight for our motel and re-making plans. He did turn on his phone and rec'd the re-plan just fine...
Sun going down on the POS Bimmer, notice the DD's next door, no stink'n Timmy Horton's for us!
Since I'm an equal opportunity rider, I show sum love to Michael's beautiful 2013 Feejer... (plus now that I have 4K resolution on my new phone) I thought it would be nice to show some image depth!)... I'm sure photobucket will compress and degrade it some, but it's still purdy!....
SO after drinking several beers for what was a "Motel Happy-hour", we ask the front desk clerk (who basically gave us complete run of the lounge area)... "Where's the best place in town for an upscale pub or eatery?" He quickly whips out about 3 choices, even prints us out directions and reviews! Wow, these gay guys down here are super nice! oh boy
I then tell Debbie to give me your best Andy salute!... she's like "what the heck are you talking about?". She just met Andy and Soozie at EOM 2 weeks prior. She loved the Geeks, probably cuz we are Geeks as well.
After remembering Andy and his antics, she politely gives me the Geek salute...
We chose the "Super Fun Center" to the desk clerk's overall best choice. He said it's a huge venue, has a bowling alley connected as well. I was like huh?" We went with it, he called us a cab and off we went. During our ride, the Cabbie takes us over to a Railroad Yard, where he starts giving us a tour and telling us that the Danzel Washington film "Unstoppable" was filmed here, well at least the beginning and Yard scenes were. Pretty darn cool!, I liked that flick and remembered it clearly.
Olean NY; "Unstoppable" Filming Video clip:
We immediately went towards the noise, but I was thinking "our restaurant of choice is here? wtf!?"...
We did find the restaurant, nice place. And, it's kinda hooked into a mini-mall with an entertainment complex. So, when in Olean, do as the locals do...so we did!
At this point, I've already had 8 beers, but Mike and I go for the bigg'ins anyways. These were wheat ale's with a citrus flavor. I'd say a little more beer tasting than a Blue Moon. Pretty tasty! Debbie just drinks water (aka Mich Ultras).
I knew I had the BBD (bigger better deal) coming up on Sunday, so I wanted to eat "light!". Yeah right!, I did order a salad, it just was bigger than expected.
Mike's happy and sporting his EOM '15 attire
After dinner, we did a few (I'll just say it was more than 1) shooters, we chose Blackhouse chilled, cuz Debbie will do that shot, so we made it ours as well. Mike then goes into the Alley, orders up a couple of games of roller bawl. We shoe-up with these little beauties...
Mike and Debbie setup the gig, man, it's been awhile since I bowled, now you take 3 images of your face in different poses like for a strike, gutter ball etc. Then when you roll one of those it proudly (shamefully) puts this image up for all to see. hmmm...
It was Mike, Deb then me. Probably wasn't going to be a real game with me being a close to 200 average bowler in my day, so I shot "beaver balls" or no thumb in the ball shots. I figured this would even the playing field somewhat. Mikey up first....
And Debbie has the 'play and pray game'...
ME shooting Beaver Balls, lol
We rolled 2 games, Wine Guy bought the rounds (bowling & shots). Overall, Mike almost kept up with me, Debbie, well let's just say she did hit 100 both times, but barely ;-) IT WAS A BLAST@! who woulda thought? bowling? crazy-fun times.
We get a taxi back to the Hotel, no tours, it's well past midnight at this time. Upon arriving back at our Microtel, we meet a few late nighters who see that we are having a "loud" fun time. They make friends with us, Mike whips out a 12 pack of Molsons.
Debbie says she can't do anymore, and I saw her eyeballs rolling around in her head. Good nite she says! (garbled). Mike and I carry on with our newly made friends. Holy cow, they were louder than us! So, the girl goes on to tell me that she love's strip clubs and getting lap dances. Her b/f says she just love tits. (his & her wording exactly). I kinda brush it off somewhat thinking Debbie may be still lurking around the corner, plus it wasn't going to look good if she did hear this!... and, it got worse!... next she tells me that she's still lactating and offers to show me! I'm like WFT! We are in the lounge area of the motel, Mike is shit faced, I am as well. Next conversation is about something that I can't remember (go figure) BUT!, it went back to her breasts, and her b/f goes on to tell me about he has them on his Corn Flakes every morning. Mike and I were laughing so hard, they were serious however and were not laughing. Got kinda weird to say the least....
Man, look at my eyebawlz, they look like 2 piss-holes in a snow bank!
We finished off Mike's 12-pak of fine Canadian beer, called it a night. That couple was even more crazier than myself, that IS scary. 'NS, and I have no idea what time it was, maybe 1ish.
TBC.........................
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