Our RV Adventures

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Our power went off a little before 2 am this morning. I don’t know how long it really stayed off, since the inverter kicked in almost immediately. But apparently it was off long enough to run the battery down on the computer UPS system.

Jan woke up with a headache this morning so we didn’t walk, but we did have coffee, of course. She took an Imitrex which usually works miracles, so we’ll see.

By about 2 Jan’s migraine had receded enough that she felt like eating so we drove up to Kemah to have lunch at Chili’s.

Jan had her favorite Margarita Chicken and I had the Chicken & Green Chile Soup & Salad. Jan also got a cup to Baked Potato Soup to go for later.

I don’t know if our order got lost or what, but this was the second time we’ve had really bad service at this Chili’s. It took almost 45 minutes to get our food, yet people at other tables were seated after we had ordered, and they still got their food before us.

We may have to find us another Chili’s.

More from us tomorrow.

In the meantime, I thought you might like to revisit our trip to the Buffalo NY area last year to the home of the originator of Buffalo wings.

Wings and more Wings…

Posted on September 25, 2009

As I said, today was pretty much just an errand day.

We’re at the Sleepy Hollow Lake Campground in Corfu, NY, a little east of Buffalo.

It’s the only park we’ve ever stayed at that has a petting zoo!  They have llamas, goats, sheep, pigs, and emus.  Not bad.

And for some strange reason, it also has its own firetruck!

Not sure that’s a good thing or a bad thing.

After sitting outside with Mister a while, we headed out looking a good place to have lunch.

While looking for, what turned out to be an out-of-business Mexican place, we stumbled on Quaker Steak and Lube,  a restaurant with, not surprisingly, an automobile theme.

And really good food.

Besides a full menu, they also specialized in Buffalo Wings.  I noticed that besides the normal ones, they had  ’Atomic Wings, so Jan and I decided to try a sampler plate of 5 wings.

According to the SHU (Scoville Heat Units) chart on their menu,  regular Buffalo wings rate a 3000 of the chart.  Really, really hot wings rate a 30,000.

Their Atomic Wings come in at150,000 SHU!

Jan ate two wings and I ate 3.  They were hot, very hot.  But I’m not sure they’re any hotter than the hottest ones that Hooters has.

But for the rest of the day, our lips did tingle and feel like they had been sunburned.

After lunch, with our tongues still tingling and our eyes still watering, we drove over to Sam’s Club for some ‘stuff’.

Heading back toward home we stopped off at a Walgreens that had flu shots available.  Jan wanted to get one.  This is just for the normal flu.  The Swine (H1N1) Flu shots won’t be available until sometime next month.

As usual,  I didn’t get one.  As I tell Jan,  “I depend on the kindness of strangers”.  I figure if everyone else gets a shot, then I won’t need one.

I haven’t gotten a flu shot for years and I haven’t had the flu for years.  And pretty much every time I got a shot in the past, I’ve gotten the flu.

So there.

We also stopped off at a NAPA Auto Parts so I could buy a new battery for the truck.  We’ve had a couple of instances recently where our truck wouldn’t start, so I wanted to take care of the problem.

I installed the new battery in the NAPA parking lot so I wouldn’t have to bring the old one back later.

Later that evening, we decided to have more chicken wings.  This time from the place that created the first Buffalo Wings in 1964 and started the whole thing.

It’s called ‘The Original Anchor Bar” and is located in Buffalo, of all places.  The place is really a family Italian restaurant and has been around since 1934.

The wings came about when some friends of the owner’s son showed up right before closing one night, and the son asked his mother to fix something for them.  She took a bunch of chicken wings that she was planning to use for soup, deep fried them, and then dunked them in a sauce she had been working on for another recipe.

And a legend was born!

This being an Italian restaurant, besides an order of Spicy BBQ Wings, we got a cheese and pepperoni pizza, and an order of Pizza Logs, kind of like Italian Egg Rolls.  All very good.  And we had leftovers.

Then it was back home to get ready to  head out tomorrow on a two day trip to Celina, OH for the Eastern Gypsy RV Rally.

More tomorrow…

Thought for the Day:
Yes I backed over the vampire, but I swear I looked in my rearview mirror.

asd