Showing posts with label iron smelting. Show all posts
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

America Runs On Dunkin


Ahh, two old fashioned donuts and a coffee with free wifi. Thank you Dunkin Donuts. Another successful night of camping and we are ready to set out for the greater Rochester NY area today. The camping spots are getting thin as we get into more urban areas, but we'll see what we can do. I continue to struggle a couple of times a day with my stove. The MSR whisperlite has only three settings: napalm strike, iron smelting, and off. I have developed a method of cooking scrambled eggs without nuking them to the pan, though. I hold the pan about three inches above the cooking surface for the entire process. Our campsite was really nice last night, lakeside with a great breeze. Except the breeze died right about the time we sat down to eat with a resulting explosion in the number of mosquitoes. We each ate with one hand and whirled the other one around our heads. I guess you can't have anything. We are both sleeping well at night, which is not always possible when sleeping on the ground, so we are thankful for that. Everywhere we go people ask us about our trip, our equipment, this cool little computer. We're like, you know, celebrities or something. Okay enough about us, we've got some more pedaling to do. Next update? sooner than this one hopefully.