Wild Hogs!

Wild Hogs is an outlaw comedy movie about four biker buddies leaving their dull suburban lives for the open road. Most bikers have seen this movie and usually see themselves or their friends in the movie characters. Not surprisingly we've seen this movie dozens of times, and we laugh out loud everytime. It's silly, quirky, not plausible and easy for us to relate to.

Wild Hogs was filmed in Madrid, New Mexico. After leaving Route 66 we traveled the Turquoise Trail to the artsy village of Madrid nestled in a narrow canyon in the Ortiz Mountains. It was a beautiful and dotted with amazing adobe style homes new and old.


Madrid once was a historic coal mining town and ghost town that is now full of art galleries, eclectic shops and bed & breakfast inns. Residents have quirky sculpture gardens in their front yards. Some look professional and others just look junky. There's also a biker tavern but our destination was Maggie's Diner to have a glass of ice tea in this famous mecca.








We cruised right up to Maggie's, parked and walked right in to quench our thirst. Imagine our surprise when we found out that it's not a diner, it's a souvenir shop! We weren't the only ones that thought it was a diner, there's a sign out front clearly stating that fact. The clerk in the store wasn't very pleasant and we could tell that she was tired of people coming in expecting a diner. Randy charmed her with questions and she warmed up to him and told us that the building was specifically built by Disney for the movie.








Even thought we didn't get our ice tea, it was worth the ride to Maggie's. Madrid was a cool town that was fun to visit. We know that lots of bikers visit Madrid just to see Maggie's, so we're considering buying the building, adding a kitchen and running a diner. We're pretty sure we'd fit right into that town and would be great at running a biker diner.

 Perhaps Maggie's should be our next venture?