POST #837
I’m going on vacation at the end of next week — yea!!!!!
I will be taking a 10-hr train trip down South, to meet up with my parents in Virginia Beach and then continue on to the Outer Banks in North Carolina (where I’ll be is just down the road from the road from where the Wright brothers made their historic first airplane flight — there’s a cool museum there. It is also down the road from the largest sand dune in America. Then, too, it is a few miles away from that wonderful house that starred in the Richard Gere movie, Nights in Rodanthe
which was based on the lovely book, Nights in Rodanthe
by Nicholas Sparks.
I am planning to to pack a food bag with some fresh sauerkraut, and some of the other fermented vegetables I have in the fridge from last week’s bout (I hope I have some left when I get there, so I can show them off to my mom). I want to make some kale chips because they are so good — again, I hope some will last so I can show them to my mom. I’m ready – I have the red bell pepper, the cashews, the garlic, the chili powder, and, I think I have the onion powder (hope hope) — I do need to fetch some lemons.
Traveling raw requires a bit more pre-thinking than just packing. I’m also thinking of making some crackers (haven’t done that in a really long time). Almond/corn/flax crackers are always my favorite, but I might make some sunflower seed crackers as well, from my first cracker recipe (gosh! I haven’t made up that recipe in years, but now it calls to me)
Sounds like I’m going to be a bit busy this weekend.
Will I have space to pack clothes?
It’s all good! I’ll be on an island 25 miles out to sea. (It looks like there are no hurricanes to interrupt my idyllic vacation). If it’s warm enough, Mom and I will spend some time on the beach. If it isn’t, I’ll just spend some time on the beach by myself, looking for shells and stones and sea glass to make jewelry. I’ll get up early in the morning to watch the sun rise over the ocean from the veranda (yes, we have a veranda!) That is my favorite part of this vacation that I take every year with my parents. At some point, Mom and I will probably go shopping at the outlet mall. We might also work on a project for Mom’s church’s pre-Christmas bazaar (past projects have included making and decorating creche scenes and making sea glass jewelry with sea glass that my mother collected in Cuba).
PRETTY SMART RAW FOOD IDEAS 