{"id":10597,"date":"2020-10-27T06:35:49","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T13:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=10597"},"modified":"2020-10-27T07:16:10","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T14:16:10","slug":"the-100-hamburger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/10\/27\/the-100-hamburger\/","title":{"rendered":"The $100 Hamburger…"},"content":{"rendered":"

The $100 hamburger:\u00a0 It’s aviation slang for any hamburger that requires flying in to a local airport for a burger. I first heard the term from good buddy Margit Chiriaco Rusche when researching the story on the General Patton Memorial Museum.\u00a0 You see, there’s still an airport at Chiriaco Summit, left over from General George Patton’s Desert Training Center.\u00a0 Margit told me about pilots flying in for the mythical $100 hamburger at the Chiriaco Summit Caf\u00e9, and I knew I had to have one as soon as she mentioned it.\u00a0 The Caf\u00e9 doesn’t actually charge a hundred bucks (it was only $15.66 with a giant iced tea, fries, and a side of chili); the $100 figure pertains to what it would cost a pilot to fly your own plane to Chiriaco Summit, enjoy the General Patton Burger, and fly out.<\/p>\n

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Even though bloggers like Gresh and me are rolling in dough, we don’t have our own airplanes.\u00a0 But we have the next best thing.\u00a0 Gresh has his Kawasaki Z1 900, and I have my Royal Enfield Interceptor.<\/p>\n

Good buddy Marty (a dude with whom I’ve been riding for more than 20 years) told me he needed to get out for a ride and I suggested the Patton Museum.\u00a0 It’s a 250-mile round trip for us, and the trip (along with the General Patton Burger, which is what you see in the big photo above) would be just what the doctor ordered.\u00a0 I’d have my own hundred dollar burger, and at a pretty good price, too.\u00a0 Two tanks of gas (one to get there and one to get home) set me back $16, and it was $18 (including tip) for the General Patton Burger.\u00a0 I had my hundred dollar burger at a steep discount.\u00a0 And it was great.<\/p>\n

I’ll confess…it had been a while since I rode the Enfield.\u00a0 In fact, it’s been a while since I’d been on any ride.\u00a0 I didn’t sleep too much the night before (pre-ride jitters, I guess) and I was up early.\u00a0 \u00a0I pushed the Enfield out to the curb and my riding amigos showed up a short time later.\u00a0 There would be four of us on this ride (me, Marty, and good buddies Joe and Doug).\u00a0 \u00a0Marty’s a BMW guy; Joe and Doug both ride Triumph Tigers.<\/p>\n

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As motorcycle rides go, we had great weather and a boring road.\u00a0 It was 125 miles on the 210 and 10 freeways to get to the Patton Museum and the same distance back.\u00a0 \u00a0Oh, I know, there were other roads and we could have diverted through Joshua Tree National Park, but like I said, I hadn’t ridden in a while and boring roads were what I wanted.<\/p>\n

The Patton Museum was a hoot, as it always is.\u00a0 I had my super fast 28mm Nikon lens<\/a>\"\" (which is ideal for a lot of things), and I shot more than a few photos that day.\u00a0 You can have a lot of fun with a camera, a fast lens, a motorcycle, and good friends.\u00a0 A fast 28mm lens is good for indoor available light (no flash) photography, and I grabbed several photos inside the Patton Museum.<\/p>\n

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It was a bit strange looking at the photos of the World War II general officers, including the one immediately above.\u00a0 I realized that all of us (Marty, Joe, Doug, and I) are older than any of the generals were during World War II.\u00a0 War is a young man’s game, I guess.\u00a0 Or maybe we’re just really old.<\/p>\n

You can see our earlier pieces on the Patton Museum here<\/a> and here<\/a>.\u00a0 It’s one of my favorite spots.\u00a0 If you want to know more about Chiriaco Summit, the Chiriaco family, and the General Patton Memorial Museum’s origins, I highly recommend picking up a copy of Mary Gordon’s Chiriaco Summit<\/a>\"\".\u00a0 <\/em>It is an excellent read.<\/p>\n

We rode the same roads home as the ride in, except it was anything but boring on the return leg.\u00a0 We rode into very stiff winds through the Palm Springs corridor on the westward trek home, and the wind made for a spirited ride on my lighter, windshieldless Enfield Interceptor.\u00a0 My more detailed impressions of the Enfield 650 will be a topic for a future blog, so stay tuned!<\/p>\n

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The $100 hamburger:\u00a0 It’s aviation slang for any hamburger that requires flying in to a local airport for a burger. I first heard the term from good buddy Margit Chiriaco Rusche when researching the story on the General Patton Memorial Museum.\u00a0 You see, there’s still an airport at Chiriaco Summit, left over from General George … Continue reading “The $100 Hamburger…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[89,610],"tags":[1523,420,1524,1525,1521,1421,1520,1526,91,1522,1460,419,94],"class_list":["post-10597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motorcycle-adventure-ride","category-royal-enfield","tag-100-hamburger","tag-bmw","tag-chiriaco-summit-airport","tag-chiriaco-summit-cafe","tag-eisenhower","tag-general-patton-memorial-museum","tag-hamburger","tag-mary-contini-gordon","tag-motorcycle-ride","tag-omar-bradley","tag-patton-museum","tag-royal-enfield","tag-triumph"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201023_0052-900.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10597"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10645,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10597\/revisions\/10645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}