Come ride the taco truck

AFTON — Perched alongside North Douglas street in the lot in front of Solace (nail salon) in Afton, there’s a thing that’s worth talking about.

Something to Taco ‘Bout.

While there just once a week on Mondays, having started its weekly routine in Afton this past Monday, “Something to Taco ‘Bout,” tacos is a relatively new endeavor undertaken by Tracy Kelley and Tommy Hagen. Hagen’s wife, Beth, owns Solace, where the truck will continue to operate from on Mondays.

The nearly entirely orange taco truck has gotten around the area since its late-April opening, serving tacos at the Union County Saddle Club’s horse shows, its summer barrell racing series, outside of Wellman Dynamics and catering events, while looking to broaden its reach to local fairs, Osceola, Creston and other towns.

The idea to serve tacos was simple enough in origin.

“We have a group of friends and our thing is tacos. We really love tacos. We’re always looking for tacos,” Kelley said. “We were eating tacos one day and it came about that ‘Oh hey, they’re selling the taco truck in Osceola,’ and Tommy Hagen and I looked at each other and were like ‘Taco truck!’”

Kelley lived 14 years of her life in Texas, and while she enjoys some of the area’s local Mexican food, she missed the unique type of Mexican food served where she lived in the Lonestar State.

“There’s good mexican food up here, but it wasn’t what I was used to,” Kelley said. “So I’m like,’Let me get a little bit of that Tex-Mex flavor going on.’”

Now the Tex-Mex is going on, from serving “Gobblers,” which features turkey, cilantro-avocado slaw and mango salsa, to “Big Texas” tacos, which includes brisket, cilantro-avocado slaw, beans and a “secret sauce,” with the truck crew taking on even more than it could handle in its first official day in their new spot in Afton.

They sold out of food.

“I had an idea that we might be busy, but it was beyond what I expected. People had been waiting a couple months and the hype was going,” Kelley said.

Something to Taco ‘Bout’s menu, operating hours and travel plans are listed on its Facebook page, which can be found at “Something to Taco Bout” or “tacoboutit2.”