Pretty Good Weekend-- Part 5-- Barhopping Our Way Home

When we left the Fair Diddley, I remembered seeing a bar in Woodstock near Il-47 several times and wanting to check it out, only I wasn't absolutely sure where it was.


THE RED MILL

We found it easily, though and it turned out to be the Red Mill, dating back to 1934 by a cemetery near the new Fleet and Farm, but it was moved to its current site on Lake Street east of 47 in 1954. The current owners have had it for 13 years and both mother and son were there. Definitely a locals and motorcycle-type bar and a good crowd for a Sunday afternoon so we ended up sitting at a table.

Deals are $1 drafts on Mondays, $2 on Thursday and every day, a pitcher of beer and dozen wings for $9.95. We opted for the last one and they weren't the little B-Dub baby wings either. Mighty good eating.


THE GAMBLER

Then, we drove to the Gambler Bar in downtown McHenry on Green Street. Really big crowd cheering the Blackhawks on to their victory over San Jose and a party going on. Again, it was too crowded to sit at the bar, so ended up at a table, but each one has its own private TV.

Cheered the Hawks on while downing the $1 bottles of beer.


MULLIGAN'S

Last stop was at Mulligan's, north of McHenry on Il-31. They've been open for five years now in a little strip mall. The place was really crowded with a baggo tournament going on. You had to watch out for flying bean bags.

They had $5 pitchers and half price appetizers, so we got an order of ribs for $4. Those were some really great ribs.

Ran into buddy Kenny who plays NTN with us at Donovan's. He was there with some of his friends from the McHenry class of 1967 who he hadn't seen for years, but met via Facebook.

Pretty Good Time in the Area. --RoadDog


Thought for the Day: Have you ever noticed that when you put the two words The and IRS together it spells "THEIRS?"