Yeah; I was referring to the ferry portion of the
trip. Figured the whole thing took quite a bit longer.

Oh the ferry portion, other than the exceptional weather, was like the

other

two times I'd ridden it (PR to Ketchikan and back), not very comfortable.

Didn't you want to be out on deck all hours to
look at the scenery?

Berthing is/was extremely limited (and none was provided for us), luckily I

Costs extra to be a berther.

think we left PR early in the morning, stopped in Ketchikan for a few hours (long enough to dump people/vehicles off and xload another batch),

Petersburg

(ditto), Sitka (ditto, although we took the dog for a run on the beach

where he

experienced salt water for the first time [thought it was a pretty

dirty joke

we played on him when he took a big gulp of water and promptly

coughed]), and

finally into Haines...2+(?) days.

Yeah. Couple days. All on the same vessel, I presume.

Couldn't live katzenrein for very long, could she.

Longest I think she ever made it was 3 weeks, and that was PITAToo.

That's a considerable long time to be unloved ... .

What does one do for feline companionship in Muldoon?

I could get one if I wanted, the rules allow 2 animals, but my schedule is: Halloween to April Fools day in Lake Havasu, back here and June to

September 3+

days per week in Kasilof, the remainder here in Anchorage. Unless I

take off

and do silly things like go to Europe. IOW, the cat(s), or dog(s)

would be a

giant anchor. Almost as bad as kids, and Connie and I decided before we married we didn't want to grow up and have kids.

Millstone is the term. You could arrange visitation
rights with someone down the hall, perhaps.

mapped out a route back to Paris from Toulouse
that takes three days - I figure that's good

Ahh...what have "we" decided on the car? My itinerary is filling in

nicely.

You'll have to touch base with the other "we." It
is my impression that one of "you" will reserve a
vehicle for pickup and return at CDG for the 15th
to the 26th. By the 22nd we will sit down together
and work out the expenses and settle on a plan for
settling.

Decided to take a day and run over to Bastogne from Luxembourg, see the

Sherman

Tank parked in the town square, maybe get some frittes and a Stella.

With all those carbs you will be fighting the battle of
the bulge.

You've pointed out bunches of rented RVs, but if that
traffic is in any way tied to that Condor route, won't
there be a buildup of surplus equipment in Anchorage?

Oh those were almost all from Anchorage. Sounds crazy but I think it's

cheaper

to rent a RV/parking spot than to try and get rooms/transportation for

all the

places people visit. We met a guy down in Soldotna one year, pilot of some form from someplace in the mideast, who flew into town, rented a car,

bought

minimal equipment, slept in the car for a month or more, and then

abandoned the

camping equipment when he left (said it was cheaper than shipping it

over).

Loaned him our portable gas grill one night. But I suspect there are

people

making the reverse run to get most of the equipment back. When Connie

and I

What was the plane schedule - I presume they alternated
clockwise and counterclockwise runs?

flew that route back in 2000 the people on the plane were talking about spending their entire summer touring Alaska/Yukon. The people next to

us in

the terminal (mom/dad/2 kids, from Italy) had just returned from a 2

week float

trip. Good flight though, free German beer, and smoking (both of us

smoked at

St. Pauli Girl? Closest German thing to Coors Light.

the time) since it was a charter flight. Should have seen the flight attendants running up and down the aisles selling cartons of American

smokes.

These days, on board they sell just about everything but.

... Boneless skinless chicken, 2 for a quarter, 3 for 50cents.

Rationalized by rationing.

Bird House on the Seward Highway, burned down but recreated inside of

Chilkoot

Charlies (logo reads "Where we cheat the other guy and pass the savings

on to

you"), sold those. That was the sign on the big jar of hardboiled eggs

at the

original bar.

How much for four? Or one.

Title: Poutines Rapees

A perversion shared by Germans and French alike.

---------- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.01

Title: Kartoffelkratzet - Kartoffelschmarren
Categories: Vegetables, German
Yield: 4 servings

500 g Potatoes, cooked in their 3 tb Flour
-jackets, and peeled (a 1 ds Salt
Generous lb) 1 tb Sugar
2 Eggs 100 g Lard (1/2 cup less 1
Tbsp)
1 tb Sour cream or milk

From grandmother's more thrifty times; rarely encountered today.

Grate the potatoes, then combine with the other ingredients to a viscous
mixture. Fry the potato mixture in the hot lard.

This used to be served with rhubarb.

Serves 4.

From: D'SCHWAEBISCH' KUCHE' by Aegidius Kolb and Leonhard Lidel,
Allgaeuer
Zeitungsverlag, Kempten. 1976. (Translation/Conversion: Karin Brewer)
Posted by: Karin Brewer, Cooking Echo, 8/92

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