PROVISIONS

This 50 year old engine’s got to have fuel to make miles while touring. I’m occasionally asked what I’ll be eating along the way. I’d like to say I’ll be stopping at nice restaurants for every meal but that’s not reality….and I can’t afford it. So my staple foods will be peanut butter and jelly or honey sandwiches. I’ll probably be eating those at least once a day mid-morning or mid-afternoon.

Pre-breakfast will be some type of granola bar as I’m breaking camp and then I’ll proceed to look for a real breakfast stop 10-15 miles on down the road where I hope for a large stack of pancakes or an omelet of some nature. One of our local restaurants has something called a Mess. Its scrambled eggs with hash browns, onions and your choice of meat all mixed together. They are good! It would be great to have that every day for breakfast….or second breakfast.

Supper will be right before I reach my campsite for the evening at a restaurant or I’ll cook something like Ramen noodles, soup or some other boil-in-a-bag meal after I set up camp. Probably supplemented with more P,B & J. I’ll try and also snack thru-out the day with trail mix, Fig Newtons, a Pay Day candy bar (they don’t melt when traveling) or some fruit.

I’m still experimenting at this point to make sure I eat the right foods that will give me enough fuel for each day and that my body will adjust to. Eating the wrong foods could be disastrous and turn a fun trip into one that will be a struggle every mile.