Did you bring pan or skillet, Hank? OK. . . I'm trying to remember every single thing we ate on the trip. . . in order . . . uh. . . Whoa! The first meal I can remember sitting down to on the trip is in Tucson!
That's nuts. No wonder I was so skinny (or, at least, relatively so).
We must've eaten with Hank's relatives, in NM, for example.
And before that, there was no place to eat in Big Bend — so Bill and I must've fed ourselves somehow. No memory at all, though.
After visiting the Tapps, where I'm sure we ate plentifully and often, I next remember saltines on the walk down from the North Rim (a poor choice of snack).
And then nothing 'til Las Vegas, where we were tempted by claims of cheap food: "Steak Dinner: $2.95" and "Coffee and donuts: 3 cents!"
I believe it was the next morning when Bill met the friendly waitress and Hank and I almost spoiled it for him. But it could've been another day. There were pancakes that morning, one way or another.
My next culinary memory? My first Orange Julius, in downtown San Francisco. We stepped over trolly tracks crossing what I remember as a nutty five-way intersection to get there.
Again, we must've eaten great at Bill's grandparents', but I'm afraid I don't remember a bite!
It's pancakes and root beer, from there on out — except for a nice dinner in New Orleans that neither of you remember or can believe!
Well, I missed the ill-fated animal crackers somewhere out west. . .
Oh! Beignets and coffee, too!
But then what? Anybody got anything to add?
2 comments:
wow, i was just thinking along the same lines but did not have a chance yesterday to comment (work and home are busy right now)
anyway, i also cannot remember cooking anything at anytime during this summer. food has always been just a filler to me (disappointing my spousal unit very much)so it does not surprise me that i can't recall what i ate, but the fact that i can not remember cooking or eating at all is troublesome (the free pancakes in Tonapa,Nv being a vivid exception to the rule) i also lost some serious baby fat during this trip so we definitely did not splurge on food.
also, let the food, i do not remember pitching the tent. we had to use it a number of times, but, no recollection at all.
another thought is that KOTW in the beginning could hardly recall the trip and yet here with great detail describes the stove and tent, both of which are vague memories to me.
i do remember we were very good at unpacking and repacking the vehicle.
I give up. What DID we eat? I'm convinced that I had rice, and lots of it, without butter but with an ever declining bottle of La Choy Soy Sauce. I had next to no money, but was quite a minimalist in those days so maybe I didn't care. Maybe Joematango repaid me in comestibles for all those hamburgers at TC. ("I just want one bite." "NO" "C'mon, just one bite" "NO! I'LL BUY ONE FOR YOU!")
I, too, lost the remains of baby fat on that trip and stayed bean-pole thin until I quit smoking in 1998.
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