1-13-04
last night i had a horrible experience. i got into town late and was checking my
email when i opened one from anna. we have been having a discussion on eating habbits.
she sent me a long email on mouth watering food. i was SO hungry after reading it
i was totally unprepared when i opened one form amy who started her email off with
the news she had made FLAT BREAD!!! oh my, my favorite!!! i finally had to bale
out into the pod and make myself a sandwich. it wasn't really very good after reading
about all the good food those gals make. hmm, i might have to go visit!!!!!
i had a flat on the pod this morning. when i got up i found my self stumbling around
this morning and when i went outside i noticed the flat(hence the stumbling around
in the unlevel pod). it was mounted on a split rim so i took it easy and drug it
a quarter mile or so to loosen the beads and then put on the spare and took the
tire off the rim and got the tube out. love those split rims!!
i decided to go into town and get it fixed. $5.23 later i am on the road again.
i am kicking myself for not bringing my patching kit, dont know why i left it. Oh
yah, I remember now, I cant use a sparkplug pump with the diesel engine.
i stopped to reorganize the pickup cab and a guy came running out to see the pod.
he had a Caravel airstream and he restored and sold. it took him seven weeks with
an electric polisher to shine it up. he made money on it when he sold it for $10,000.
the only rv he has made money on he said. he really wanted to buy the pod, but he
didn't have much luck with me on that.
while i was there i got to looking around a place that sells furs and leather stuff.
they had all the beads, conchos arrow heads, flint knives, and a lot of trapper
and rendezvous stuff. i went inside and there was a guy making some shoes from buffalo
and he had some special things he made in there. a couple of really nice buffalo
vests and a coat made out of beaver hides. the most unusual thing he had ever made
was a bra for a gal who had three breasts. There are a lot of stories that go untold
i am sure, you just hhave to hit the right button.
back to camp....
i just have to paste in part of the email form anna... i hope you aren't as hungry
as i was.
Hi Rex,
In general in the cities in Europe people eat just a cup of coffee and a
pastry for breakfast, or a piece of toast. Here in Barcelona the people eat
toast with fresh tomato juice dripped over the top with olive oil. For many
Europeans (Poles, Spaniards) the biggest meal of the day is/was lunch. In
Poland most people worked until 2pm and had lunch at 3. Here in Barcelona
people have a two hour break during the day so they can go home and eat
lunch- or they go to a restaurant where a daily menu is served that includes
two courses, a dessert, bread and wine. We Americans are different in that
we eat such a big breakfast (which according to doctors it's better to eat
the biggest meal in the morning.) People are always surprised that I can
eat eggs, toast, yogurt and juice for breakfast. I noticed however that
people eat more for breakfast in the countryside and in Poland too- so my
theory is that breakfast depends not on where you live regionally, but if
you live in the city or live in the country where you do more manual labor.
In Poland people eat open-faced sandwiches for breakfast laden with meat or
herring and mustard on a heavy rye bread, cottage cheese, and tea. Here in
the countrside they eat the famous toast with tomato (not slices, but the
fresh squeezed tomato juice), olive oil but make open-faced sandwiches with
all sorts of types of sausages, cured hams and cheeses and coffee. Here in
Barcelona it's not uncommon to know that people eat two or three cookies or
crackers with coffee for breakfast- in Bolivia too. But again in Bolivia in
the countryside people at a hot cereal of native grains (canawa normally)
with milk (if available) or a hot think corn drink with cloves and sugar.
In Medellin the peasant breakfast is a huge bowl of hot chocolate made with
concentrated sugar cane syrup bricks, pure chocolate blocks and milk or
water, a very thick corn tortilla (nothing like the Mexican ones) and a
couple thicks slabs of fresh salty creamy cheese (very good, impossible to
find even in Bogota!)...now that was a great caloric breakfast! And for
lunch the typical peasant meal in the province of Antioquia, where Medellin
is (served all on one platter), is: beans, rice, cut of beef, a fried egg,
and fried plaintains and preceded by a rich soup, accompanied with fresh
juice (mango, papaya, pineapple, passionfruit, lulo, etc.) and followed up
with a dessert (for example, guava paste with chilled cooked corn in milk)
and coffee. Let me tell you that after that I was bursting at the seams and
couldn't eat for days. And in Medellin you can easily find all of that for
less than $2