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What potentially could have been a very hot ride to and from Yarnell was actually not too bad! After installing a fresh battery on my Honda last night, she was ready to go this morning! Our 2nd Sunday Breakfast was held today at the Ranch House which is right at the top of Yarnell Hill just down the street from downtown.
Our dinner this month was at a unique eatery that featured a collection of exotic birds scattered around the outdoor portions of the restaurant.
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Let’s get the obvious out of the way right now. It’s hot! With that said, July’s breakfast was held in the cooler temperatures of Payson. For me, this meant leaving my house in Buckeye just after 7:00 AM. It was already in the high 90’s at this time. I met up with fellow board member Todd at the Chevron across from the Ft McDowell Casino and road together up The Beeline (SR87).
This month’s dinner was in a trendy section of downtown Phoenix near Roosevelt Row. The club has been here twice before, the first was an Alien Abduction Tour Meet & Greet and then we’ve had a regular club dinner. Both occurred a few years ago and we were due for a return!
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It all started in 2003. The first time I’ve heard of the AZRATPack was on a shuttle from my hotel in Birmingham, AL to the airport. I was at the 2003 Ducati 999R launch at Barber Motorsports Complex and was talking to Peter Cramer, at the time, owner of Phoenix International Motorsports, who was a customer of mine that bought Fast By Ferracci parts for Ducatis from me. He was telling a group of us about how he had formed a RAT Pack out of his dealership and Triumph’s involvement in these.
The hot months are here and it means that we move our breakfasts out of the valley and into some cooler areas up north. This month, we visited Anita’s Cocina in Wickenburg. This is a perennial favorite spot. We’ve stopped here several times over the years for either a 2nd Sunday Breakfast or a lunch stop on a ride.
I love going up to the Flagstaff in the heat of the summer. We went as a family three years ago for our daughter’s 20th birthday and took the chairlift ride at the Arizona Snowbowl. It was wonderfully cold!!! It’s hard to believe that in July it could be cold in Arizona, but up north, it does! The view from the chairlift was beautiful while being an all around fun time. I wanted to go back and I felt it would be a great to suggest to the club’s board to add it as a summer, “get out of the heat” ride. Last fall, they voted and YES!!! It was going to actually happen! For me this was my ride and I couldn’t wait! I even bought a Groupon for the chairlift a month in advance. I was ready!!
May’s dinner was a short trip for me from work to a spot I frequent every once in a while for lunch. Andreoli’s is one of my go to spots when I want to treat myself and when trying to figure out a good spot for our monthly dinner on the east side of town, it made sense!
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Our May 2nd Sunday breakfast usually falls on Mother’s Day which means we take our annual trip up to the Rock Springs Café for a spring breakfast. Today we were blessed with perfect temperatures for the trek up north on I-17 from the various parts of the valley our members come from.
This month’s dinner was at one of my favorite restaurants in the valley. A lot of the dishes at Cuban Foods I only get to have around Christmas since that’s the only time my mom will go through the trouble of making them! The food at Cuban Foods is almost as good as my mom’s!
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