Subj : Go West was: Real Deal To : Ruth Haffly From : Dave Drum Date : Tue Apr 30 2024 05:54:00 -=> Ruth Haffly wrote to Dave Drum <=- DD> How did we get along before the GPS driving coach? RH> Road maps and atlas books. The GPS is much easier to use--we got our RH> first one in late 2006/early 2007 (in GA, after coming back from HI). RH> It's a lot easier to plug a destination into the box and let it do the RH> calculating than to do it yourself, especially on our cross country RH> trips. Back in the day Triple A (American Automoblie Association) had a trip planning service witk maps that had the route highlighted and a printed accompaniment listing "recommended fuel, food, and hotel/motel" stops. DD> Canuckistan you can jump on the 401, one of Canada's nice East-West DD> highways and zoom west until you get to to Windsor. Then drop back DD> into USA and the Interstate system and keep on West until one of DD> the daughters is near. DD> Shawn messaged me that "zooming" on the 401 will be clogged with DD> traffic. But I thik that just in the urban sprawl of Toronto. RH> Which, depending on the time of day, day of the week, may/may not be RH> too bad. Coming thru Atlanta on I-85 is usually no picnic but several RH> years ago we went thru it around 8pm on a week night. All the back ups, RH> traffic jams, etc were gone so going thru, even towing, was not a RH> problem. Atlanta has a law disallowing semi tractor/tarialer rigs from going thru the middle of Hot Lanta. I had a set of phony bills of lading once (in case I got pulled over) and went right through. I figured it saved my more than an hour of travel time. OTOH in Chicago, Cincinatti and Imdy it's easier and quicker to use the ring roads and go around. RH> we're usually gone about a month with them. Interesting, along the way, RH> shopping in different supermarkets--found a Lowe's out in New Mexico RH> that claimed no affiliation with the NC chain but did carry the same RH> house brands. Harmon's, just down the road from our daughter in UT, has RH> a good sized store that is very similar to Wegman's, maybe closer to RH> Publix or a big Harris Teeter but a fun store to shop in. DD> Never shopped in a Lowe's grocery store. Just their hardware/lumber/ DD> plumbing stores. And I find that I prefer Menard's (who carry DD> groceries at really good price points) overall. RH> We've got both the supermarket and the hardware/lumber chain here in RH> WF. Used to, when we first moved here, we shopped the supermarket quite RH> a bit as it was convenient to where we lived. They (hardware and groceries) originated in North Wilkesboro - home of NASCAR racing. Lowe's Hoe Improvement is currently head-quartered a bit further south in Mooresville, another city with a rich NASCAR history . I've picked up loads of hardware at the N. Wilkes warehouse back when it was also the "home office". DD> For groceries locally I prefer Hy-Vee for staples, Humphrey's for meat DD> and store-bought produce. With Hy-Vee I can order staple items, have DD> their minions pick the and bag order and put it in my car - if I buy a DD> U$25 or more order. And we know that's not hard to do in today's DD> economy. RH> Most all of the stores around here do that but we still do our own RH> shopping and furnish the bags for baggers. Or, we'll take them out to RH> the truck in the buggy and bag them ourselves if we've not grabbed the RH> bags on the way in. Most of our shopping is done at Wegman's, for RH> convenience, value, etc. Food Lion had a special on London broil so we RH> went there so Steve could get some to make jerky--that's where I had RH> the fall. The back is doing much better now, still have some "nice" RH> bruises but getting around a lot better. Hy-Vee is our Midwest Wegman's equivalent. I only get staple items from their "snatch & grabbit" service. Fresh produce, meat and deli still reuire me to go iside and select personally what I'm buying. The other major stupormarkups here offer similar deals - but I have yet to try them out. RH> ... Books are better than TV; they exercise your imagination. DD> True dat. If youm watch the tube or the mvies you get the director's DD> vision of what the author meant. Reading a book your mind builds your DD> own vision .... RH> Exactly! Fun part of our first echo picnic was putting faces with RH> names. We'd met a few folks in the first 13 years or so we were on the RH> echo but got to meet a lot more "in real life" at the event the Shipps RH> hosted in 2007. IIRC you were also at the last picnic they held. That was before Nancy fell off of her twig. MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06 Title: Beef Teriyaki & Rice Categories: Oriental, Beef, Vegetables, Wine Yield: 2 Servings 3 tb Soy sauce 1 tb Dry sherry 2 ts Brown sugar 1 1/4 ts Garlic powder 1 ts Ground ginger 3/4 lb Flank steak strips 1 tb Oil 3 c Bite size vegetables * 1 c Beef broth 4 ts Cornstarch Water to thin sauce at need * Three cups of veggies - suggest slant cut carrots, green onions, green or red pepper chunks, a few pea pods if you have them. Mix soy sauce, sherry, brown sugar and seasonings. Add beef or chicken. Let stand 10 minutes to marinate. Stir fry meat in hot oil in wok until browned, remove. Add vegetables. Stir fry until tender crisp. Mix broth and cornstarch, add to wok. Bring to boil, boil 1 minute. Replace meat to wok to coat. Serve over rice. == Courtesy of Dale & Gail Shipp, Columbia Md. == Uncle Dirty Dave's Archives MMMMM .... 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