Barbecue Around the Corner
Just aim for the right road and follow
It was the summer of 2015, and my daughter was pointing her iPhone GPS toward a direction that seemed too dense to follow or even contemplate.
“It says turn right here,” she spoke with just the faintest bit of hesitation and doubt.
“But here looks like an alley, and a dead end.”
“I don’t know, but let’s keep going.”
We had been in Bessemer for the last three days, and today our plan was to take a forty-five minute drive down to Tuscaloosa, to peruse the campus when it’s relatively quiet, and shop at The Shirt Shop, where “Elephant Wear” rages in all seasons. If you’ve never been to the Shirt Shop, be advised and take your anti-claustrophobia pills before entering. Shirt racks ascend and descend and surround and leave you breathless, most of the time in a very good way.
My daughter bought me a faded green t-shirt that day, as warm, cool, and comfy as whatever season demands it to be.
She might have bought herself a few, too, and I swear, life doesn’t seem like it can get any better than when your kids shop for you and treat you to what you and they want you to have.
But this is a foody site, and I know that my title has clued you in to the other part of our…
