The MADMEN Odometer – December 2012
December didn’t have us on the road as much as a group as some months, but we still had lots of smiles. We tried to take it easy this month to give everybody more time to spend with family and all of the holiday plans and activities that many of us have with family and work.
On December 8th the Annual DMC Holiday Party had the Desert Rat Pack join us in Tucson at Cattletown Steakhouse and Saloon where about 35 DMC members gathered and swapped stories and gifts. We had a special room set aside for our group and the parking lot was filled with MiNis while the room was filled with “family and friends”. We had the traditional gift exchange in which many great items switched hands and fun was had by all. The DMC provided some door prizes ranging from T-shirts to Tools, Signs and more. After the party many of our members headed over to the 4th Avenue Winter Street Fair for shopping and entertainment.
Your Co-Chairs took an opportunity to really put on the miles for both personal business, pleasure, and fact finding for some future runs we are planning. Lets just say that 4 adults, around 3,500 miles in a Countryman with a rooftop luggage box is an interesting combination. We gathered information for our runs to Roswell and Memphis, as well as future runs in the greater Southwest.
Our Last Saturday Breakfast was not only the last Saturday of the month, but the last Saturday of 2012. On December 29th 26 MADMEN met at Beyond Bread on Oracle Road and nearly took up half the seating area. We had old friends and new ones join us for a great time of visiting and eating. After this many of us went to Marsha and Dave’s house to discuss plans for the trip in February to Roswell NM. This trip is dubbed A MINI Weekend Abduction-Roswell. To make a full day of it we then went to see an Elvis Presley tribute artist perform, that should help us get in the right frame of mind for our April roadtrip to Memphis. MME on the BBC!
Here are some of the upcoming events planned for January and the very first week of February, we hope to see you soon.
Thursday January 10, 6pm– My MINI Has the Munchies for some Southern down home cookin’ so we’re heading to Mays Counter Chicken and Waffles. Located at 2945 East Speedway in Tucson chef Aaron May serves up chicken and waffles (natch), steak, catfish, sandwiches, tater tots, shrimp and grits, pickle chips and much more. This is some seriously good food and I am aleady dreaming about the shrimp and grits.
Saturday January 26, 8am– Last Saturday of the Month Breakfast will be at Millie’s Pancake Haus at 6530 E. Tanque Verde. Pancakes are a specialty but the menu also includes waffles, French toast, omelettes and more.
The decor is Old World Grandma style or Brothers Grimm fairy-tale-cottage, kinda kitschy but comforting.
Saturday Feb 2 is the Santa Cruz Valley Car Nuts show in Tubac. The proceeds from the car show go to scholarships and a graduation car for Sahuarita High School.
The car show starts at 10am and there will be time to stroll through Tubac as well. Lunch plans are still being discussed and The Velvet Elvis in Patagonia has been mentioned.
Our usual meeting place for the drive to Tubac is the Home Depot parking lot at I-19 and Irvington Road. Exact time for departure will follow.
As always, please email us for more information on any event or to join up with the MADMEN. MADMENofTucson@gmail.com