May 30, 2014. Cherry-Stuffed French Toast at the White Gull Inn.

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 



May 30, 2014.  Cherry-Stuffed French Toast at the White Gull Inn.  Dave and Mary drive a sixteen year-old Class A Winnebago.  They are in the camping space across the road from us.  They tow a compact Honda SUV and have a travel dog that looks like Sandy from the movie, Annie.  Dave is a retired social worker and Mary is a retired physician whose specialty was OBGYN.  They travel the country building homes for the homeless through volunteer work with Habitat for Humanity.  They belong to a group called RV Care-A-Vanner.  All that's required is for you to volunteer for a "build".  You then take your own hand tools and drive your RV to the build location.  There, you spend two weeks building a deserving family a home.  You pay all your own expenses and, if so inclined, make a financial contribution to the local Habitat organization.  When Dave and Mary started ten years ago, they knew nothing about building or home construction.  Last summer, they completely remodeled their own home.   

 

Dave and Mary were telling us about the work they do.  They are excited and are in a recruiting state of mind.  I told them that the work they do is noble and we might be interested somewhere down the road. 

 

Dave then, as a reward for our interest, told us that the White Gull Inn has a cherry-stuffed French toast breakfast that is internationally recognized.  Well, when you have an opportunity to eat an internationally recognized breakfast, you seize it.

 

It was, without question, the best French toast I have ever eaten.  The "stuffing" is cream cheese and Montmorency cherries.  The garnish is powdered sugar and maple syrup.  If you are in Fish Creek, you should try it.  But, my advice is to do the half-order.  We didn't eat again for seven hours and the first three of those I was uncomfortably full.  But, the breakfast made us both feel forty years younger.  We also looked forty years younger, see above. 

 

After breakfast, we walked and biked and read and napped.  Dinner was steaks grilled out followed by S'mores over a campfire.  We then took our last bike ride of the day and broke down the camp.  Tomorrow we will move to another site and Sunday, we will start home.  We will make a slight detour through St. Louis to visit the RV dealership which sold Harvey to the guy we bought him from.  We are thinking about a slightly larger unit and thought we would see what's available.  No tears, we haven't ditched Harvey, yet.