Bike ride to Eat and the Wharf.



 

 

Today after taking the dogs for a long walk we decided to take a bike ride on the Back Country Trails to Canal Rd. and then to the Eat restaurant for Italian day. The ride to the restaurant was very nice with the weather in the mid 60's.  It didn't take us long to get there since it is only about seven miles from the rv.  The food was again over the top.  They can fix things as simple as mashed potatoes and make them unlike any you have ever had before in your life.  The lasagna they had today was the best we have ever had.  After lunch we rode to the Wharf which includes a collection of upscale shops, a condo building and many boats tied up to docks.  Oh, there is also an arena for concerts where Janet sang her best rendition of "Proud to be an American" by Lee Greenwood.  She sounded pretty good for some reason because she only sings just a little better than me and I make the dogs howl when I sing.   We walked around the docks and talked to a girl cleaning one of the boats.  She said most of the owners of the boats she cleans live in states outside of Alabama.  

 

 

Have you heard of fire ants before.  Well I was attaching lines to Janet's screen room and while I was kneeling down pounding in a stake I was mistakenly in a nest of fire ants.  When disturbed they get very aggressive and go on the attach which I learned the hard way.  Won't make that mistake again.

 

Just think Miranda Lampert was on this very stage not many weeks ago on the same x on the stage where Hulio is belting out her Proud to be an American song.

I bet Miranda's outfit was just slightly more subdued than the road construction orange and yellow number that Huli was wearing.





 

These ought to be in the Fat Tire Beer commercial. 

The shops at The Wharf line each side of the main street.  At the end of the street is the condo building and behind that are the docks where the boats are tied up on the inter costal waterway.

They are starting to decorate for Christmas

 

 

 

 To get back to Gulf State Park we cut through the Orange Beach Sportsplex which I posted earlier held the SEC soccer tournament this year.  This sportsplex has 12 fields that include baseball, football and soccer.  It is a very nice facility with each field having restrooms and lights for night games.  I can't figure it out exactly but everything around this area says the municipalities have very large budgets to maintain these types of facilities.  I think they get the revenue from the taxes collected on the condos because the permanent residents couldn't support all of the improvements you see in the area.  Sorry about this observation but my brain translates everything to dollars no matter what it is or how hard I try not to do it.  This is a condition I was born with.  For example, you may be explaining your experience about this mornings church service you attended and my brain is guessing how much you put in the contribution plate and whether or not they passed a second plate for the proverbial building fund and how much they would net doing this 52 weeks per year.  So, now you know and it ain't pretty.