Day Six

The Adventure of Eating....

Two days ago the group wanted to go out for BBQ....They decided NOT to have the two of us with cars drive to a "nearby" BBQ house, after all, it was only "a mile away". We started walking at 6. After passing through the Dakota badlands, we finally ended up in a Canadian BBQ joint somewhere outside of Montreal. Although the BBQ was good...the walk in 97 degree heat at 87% humidity was not. The highlight of the trip was finding a flattened (to the size of a sheet of paper) frog and field mouse as well as a rotted opossum carcass.

You'd think we would have learned.

Tonight, our fearless leader Claire (the mastermind of the week - and doing a great job) led us on a 2-car expedition to find a steakhouse. She had "GPS directions". Right. After driving for 15 minutes down Texas Avenue, they pulled over to ask directions at a Domino's pizza. They never heard of the place, but, they claimed to have "GPS" directions to another steakhouse.

You'd think we would have learned, part deux.

After driving out of College Station, through Bryan, Texas, out of Bryan, Texas, through Canada and across the Bearing Strait, 30 miles LATER, we finally found out that we "probably passed it". Luckily, one of my astute riders located a Steakhouse we had passed back in Bryan....20 minutes earlier. We went back and I had absolutely, without question, the most awful steak I have ever had in my life!

However, the day was not without its high point, where we turned the life cycle of the C-Fern into the Theme From the Brady Bunch....For more on that....see the next post!