March 10th was a Good Day to Wander for Pie

Today was a good day.  I had breakfast with the group at our regular Saturday morning breakfast hangout, the Town House Cafe in South Sioux.  Loyd, Randy, Steve, Dan, Randy and Chuck were there.  The weather was so usually nice that four of us road to breakfast.

Saturday Breakfast at the Town House Cafe in South Sioux

Ronda, our quick waitress was in top form.  As Loyd tried to figure out how Ronda could disappear out the front door of the back room towards the lunch counter and then reappear almost instantly out of the kitchen door with his food, Ronda introduced herself as Ronda's identical twin sister Wanda.  We all had a good laugh until someone asked if we needed to tip the both of them.


After running errands, Randy and I met over at Loyd's.  It was about noon and we headed down into the Loess Hills to looking for a pie place on our GSs.  About 2:30, after some wandering about, we ended up at Dave's Old Home Cafe in Pisga, IA.  We had a sandwich there, but found out they only had 1 piece of pie left.  After ribbing some Harley riders for Council Bluffs for a few minutes, we took off in search of pie again.

Randy and Loyd in Pisga next to Old Home Cafe

About an hour later, after riding to a couple other remote cafes which were closed, we ended up at Penny's Diner in Missouri Valley.  Penny's is best known for milk shakes, blue plate specials, and fresh homemade pie. Randy scored the last slice of cherry pie and Loyd and I had slices of peach pie.  From Missouri Valley we wandered north until Randy took a shortcut past Small's Apple farm on F32.  F32 is a neat little road which runs up a ridge past several orchards, but then turns suddenly into gravel.  Loyd and I followed Randy and we ended up twisting and turning for several miles on gravel until we ended up back on the paved road just a few hundred feet down from Small's, hehe.  Sometimes its fun to sit back and follow someone who doesn't know these old back roads and see what they discover.  We took pavement back through Pisga and Moorehead, then west down the Old Danish Church road before turning north on Larenteur road along the Loess Hills bluffs through Turin, Rodney and Smithland.  From Smithland old 141 took us home.  It was a good day to wander for pie.