In my work with HD, I travel to Vicksburg quite a bit, and I always see the exit sight for the town of Bolton. I know several folks that live in the area, but I've never managed to exit right going in either direction. Turns out that my friend Danny owns the Chevron station right off the exit.
We made it to town, half following my GPS lady Brenda and half listening to friend Janice on the back seat. We make the final turn to Gina & Danny's place, and sitting in the driveway is a 1962 Cadillac limousine! Danny has restored it to working order, and this car was going to be our ride to dinner!
This car reminded me of the black Lincoln in the Animal House movie that John Belushi when nuts in during the parade scene. I knew this was going to be a fun trip when I noticed the crescent wrench on the floor board of the front seat! You have never so many cigarette lighters in one vehicle.It even has two pop up booster seats that come out from behind the front seats and the floor. Danny had a special surprise for us. He has a fire engine siren hooked up to this bad boy of a car, and once we got outta town he let it rip!
Our first stop was in Raymond to drop off G&D's daughter with spend the night folks. We were passed by two of Hinds County's finest along the way, and Danny did not realize that he had his bright lights on when they passed. He kept looking in his rear view mirror checking to see if one of them was doing a u-turn! That would have been fun, since there were seven in the car and not a single seat belt to be found. Once we had delivered our precious cargo we were off again.
Danny looked at me and said "don't even try to figure out how we're getting to the restaurant, because the return trip home will be a different route!" At this point you had to wonder what ole Danny Boy might have stashed in the trunk of that big old Caddie?!!! Some of the roads were were travelling on had lost their stripes, and it was like, "where in the hell is he taking us????" It was obvious where the lines were drawn between City, County and State funded road maintenance!
We finally made it to our destination, Learned, MS, and the Gibbes Country Store. Your gotta look this town up on Google Maps. I would love to heard the story of how the restaurant got started. Learned is literally out in the middle of nowhere!
The restaurant is in an old dry goods store from days past. There is still merchandise on the shelves, and lots of memorabilia up top. The cook uses an old charcoal fire pit to do all the cooking. The owners only accept cash and checks. No point bringing a credit card, because there is no cell signal or wifi for miles in this neck of the woods. They serve soft drinks, tea, watrer and beer. Other than that its BYOB. The menu is limited, and served on paper plates. In spite of an overflow crowd on the front porch, our wait was fairly short.
Here are some pictures of the food that was consumed on this night. And dang it! I forgot to take pics of dessert!
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| hamburger steak |
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| Filet |
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| tuna |
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| lamb chop |
With Great friends, good food, and a few bottles of wine, a great time was had by all. The ride back to Bolton was as fun as the trip over! I suggested we ride by my buddy Buster Trigg's house and run the siren or honk the horn as we re-entered Bolton. Danny looked at me and said "son, this ain't the big City, if you know what I mean"!
Can't wait for the next roadie trip with this motley crew!
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