Wife Terri, son Joseph and myself rode out to Willow City saturday to try that "Harry's on the loop BBQ" and visit enchanted rock on the way back. Terry had been there before in 1973, the year we were married and had climbed to the summit, but neither I nor our sons had never been there. We got to Harry's at 11:15 and had to wait till 11:30 when the BBQ was ready.  I would suggest getting there later, when the brisket has a little more time to soften. We rated the beans as best, the potato salad (made with German fried potatoes), the sausage then the brisket. Only the jap-a-linos were left on our plate when we were done.

 I got a picture of Harry here  along with other photos of the trip.

The restaurant was tiny, but artfully decorated with unusual objects and harry's witty saying. For example, the ladies room had a note near the john "Ladies: Please put all tissue in this basket. If we run out of tissue, feel free to recycle". Cleary, whoever decorated the gents and harlots bathrooms put considerable thought into it.

We then rode over to enchanted rock, $5 per person entrance fee.

 We got about 1/2 way up and terry walked about 30 feet further than me so I could get her picture in the background.  Of course I was carrying the backpack and camera or I would have easily made it to the summit. Our son managed to make it to the summit were he was still a speck even with the zoom on in the camera. All together it was a nice trip and we passed a lot of bikers. Unfortunately, the willow city loop road was strewn with beer cans and beer bottles. Since it is private property I assume the owners could get together and close down the road if they wanted. My wife dropped a water bottle when we took an unexpected bounce and I made a U-turn to retrieve it. Clearly, all the beer can crap was thrown out on purpose most likely by cagers. I don't think any bikers would have done that though and Harry was glad we had come. It would appear that Harry makes most of his money from beer sales.