On Sunday, several of us met for lunch at Famous Dave’s BBQ, and beforehand a drive through Boston. Meeting less than a mile from my house, we drove Storrow Drive into downtown. Storrow is one of my favorite roads to drive around here, as it is one of those old roads with no shoulders, sharp curves, drastic dips under bridges, yet still high-speed two-lane highway, and the added crazy Boston drivers all combine to make it a good challenge. We then turned off and drove through downtown and the swanky Newbury Street, which was a slow but challenging slalom of an unbelievable number of double-parked cars (and Hummers).
We then continued up Rt. 1 to Famous Dave’s in Saugus where we joined a few others and surprised the staff with a group of 20+ for lunch. A chain BBQ place will never score high with a BBQ snob like me, but they do a decent job considering and are still as good as most of the local places in the area. There was some understandable food confusion, but the staff was positive and the manager became very interested and asked if we could pose our cars in front of their truck for a photo (above).
What we thought would be a much smaller impromptu event made for a fun Sunday break from all the holiday shopping and parties that make this time of year so busy. We had a number of new MINI people (and plenty old too) so there was plenty to talk about. These smaller events are my favorite because they are more about the people than the event itself. Thanks Sheena (and Ian!).