Road Trip to Adrian, MI

I’ve attempted to make this trip a few weeks earlier but the fates conspired against me.  But this morning all the moons were aligned and the sun was shining so I hit the road!  It was perfect driving weather and with a mellow music background the 2 hrs melted away pretty quickly.  Using Google Navigator put me directly in front of the shop no problem.  I was at Maggard Razors!

First impression, though small retail-wise, it was larger than I anticipated.  And boy was it stocked!  They had so many names I recognized from seeing folks SOTDs daily.  It was information overload!  It took me a good twenty minutes of just looking at everything before I could even START picking stuff out…

Yep, that’s I 😉  As you can see the shelves were pretty full.  I believe I was standing in front of the TOBS, Edwin Jager, and Trumpers shelves.  Behind me in the glass case where some really high end products.  To the left of those was a full compliment of razors.  Maggard, Parker, and more.  I didn’t really spend much time looking at them admittedly.  Once I had taken in the store, I observed the staff.  Both Cassie and Brad, and two other employees (one was their daughter?), were buzzing around the shop like worker bees.  Work was obviously going on, but Brad immediately acknowledged me with a welcoming smile!  He seemed genuinley happy to see me in his store.  That’s the type of business that I want to give my money too.  He & Cassie both made me feel like they valued my business.  They have a fan for as long as they are in business!

So eventually I got around to purchasing some things.  I have to admit I was tempted to empty my wallet right then and there but I am proud to say I exercised some restraint, and only picked up some of the items on my want list and one new thing to try.  The Haul:

• Maggard Razors Pre-shave Oil / Lime – out of the six samples I’ve tried, this scent was my favorite.
• Fine Classic After Shave / Platinum – How could I not get some of this with like 85% of the online community clamoring about how good it smells? 😉  I haven’t worn it yet, but in the bottle it smells great!  American Blend comes next!
• RazoRock / Brain Freeze – again, how could I not try a RazoRock soap?  Plus I wanted to try a menthol heavy soap so two birds, one soap… lol
• Ogallala Bay Rum Shaving Stick / Bay Rum & Lemon Grass – I’ve also wanted to try a shaving stick.  It’s was between the Arko stick and this one.  I absolutely love this scent.  Hopefully it lathers well.

After the purchase and goodbyes, we spent sometime walking around Adrian.  Nice looking little town, not much going on, on a Saturday early afternoon.  Stopped and had lunch at the Alpha Koney Island.  I have to give them a shout out because that Gyro I had was AWESOME!  I swear they put a good 1/4 pound of Feta on that thing!  Super messy and super tastey!  When I make it back to Adrian, I will be stopping at Alpha again.  Just as we were headed back home, the sky opened up and dumped a monsoon of water on us.  Stayed that way until about 10 miles from home and then the sun returned.  Perfect.