Some news on the trip

so I'm feeling somewhat recuperated after a fantastic night's sleep (thanks to new running shoes, new dog leash and the Walk of Walks) and thought I would share some details, mostly about the food since otherwise you need to see the pics.

We did lots of dehydrating for the trip and had some pretty good meals considering we were working with the constraint of water being the only thing we had available once we were out in the woods.

The dehydrated veggies were killer (in the good way) for the most part, although I can tell you not to bother trying to dehydrate celery. It is never the same, it just doesn't come back. It sits there in the bowl like an angry crunchy little demon and tries to choke you. And the taste is not ok.

We had some meals we planned better (we took a bag of dried chili mix from the grocery store, split it into 2, added some TVP, dried tomato sauce and veggies and packed those for 2 meals -DELISH), but we relied a lot on PBJ and Ramen. For the Ramen meals, I made up little combo baggies of veggies -corn, carrots, peas,onions- and we just portioned those out into 1 meal sizes. 2 hours before dinner we would throw the veggies in a nalgene bottle to get them started, then just cook the whole bottle and add the noodles. Fucking awesome, seriously. And then...we met some dude who said if you added red pepper flakes (packets of which I had purloined from the airport pizza joint) and peanut butter it's like "ghetto thai". and it was, and it was also delicious! and filling and hearty and perfect for rainy weather. I would consider this one at home, for reals. I think I fell in love with Ramen all over again, and I was never really that far out.

Also, we hitchhiked a lot, and one of the days we thought there might be competition, so we decided we needed a friendly edge. HN came up with the idea of offering doughnuts to anyone who picked us up, so we each bought our faves (powdered donettes by Ms Fresh for me, chocolate glazed entemanns for him) and got to it. We decided we should make a sign, so HN took matters into his own hand and produced the masterpiece represented below. Unfortunately for you and the box, it was pouring that day and we didn't dare take the camera out so there is no photographic evidence of this and you'll have to settle for my recall. The doughnuts were not harmed however. Chocolate glaze is apparently bulletproof in addition to water repellent.

No thats not how you spell it but he sure is handsome!