Camp Chef

Today we started out of camp and had to go backwards a mile to the grocery store.  T and I are cooking tonight and the grocery store on the way to the campsite burned down either last year or the year before and hasn’t been rebuilt.  So, as a team we have to carry our food for tonight and then tomorrow’s breakfast and lunch.


Dinner is served!  We had some pretty great reviews on our chicken pad Thai.  We added in peas, mushrooms, and broccoli.  And then there was strawberry shortcake for dessert.  I have two more days that I’ll be cooking on the trip and have to come up with some more recipes.  



As far as riding goes, today was a lot of miles with some rolling hills.  There is something very freeing about being on a bicycle.  I’m not wild about when we’re riding along busy highways.  But when there's a car every 5-10 minutes, and plenty of shoulder to ride in, life is pretty good.  There’s lots of farmland.  I think it’s hay bails for miles and miles.  Very different scenery than the Connecticut shoreline.


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