Thursday, March 19, 2009

So excited!

I'm so excited for this trip! It is going to be so much fun! I love road trips and spending time with my family and eating yummy food! I am really looking forward to going to New York! -Asha(:

what's happening

I'm doing a lot of work right now putting together ideas for food articles/essays/thoughts on the road trip. I would like to have something foodie to write about in (some) depth for each destination. It's fascinating doing the research on food in the places we'll be traveling. Some of the ideas I've been exploring:
eating cows in Canada (a mad idea?)
what's the local/organic movement doing up there?
Croissants and Macaroons in Montreal
Prairie Cuisine

I've run across great food magazines (Food For Thought) for example that comes out of Alberta that I'd never heard of.

I've gotten a few recommendations from friends, but I'd like to hear more. Where to eat? What foodie things to write about?

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

The emphasis on this trip is, no surprise, food. Where to eat, what to eat, and just how often can we eat? This last is the one limiting factor. I'm particularly interested in finding treasures in those out of the way towns that appear to be at the mercy of Subway (you know, the places where even McDonalds doesn't go?). I know that people in that town must want good food. Our aim is to find it!
Will roadtrip for food

I've been planning the trip for months (well, for years if dreaming counts as planning) and it looks like it's actually going to happen.

This is the itinerary:
Departure June 16th Crescent City, CA
17th Cave Junction, OR
18th Crater Lake
19th and 20th Hood River, OR
21st Sand Point, ID
22-24th Banff, Alberta
25 Calgary
26-27th Waterton
28th Regina
29-30th Winnipeg, Manitoba
July 1st Thunder Bay Ontario
2nd Wawa, Ontario
3-4th Huntsville
5-7 Ottawa
8-10 Montreal
11-13 Quebec City
14 Miramichi, New Brunswick
15-16th Victoria PEI
17-19th Lunenburg Nova Scotia
20th St Martins, New Brunswick
21-22nd St John New Brunswick
23-25 Blue Hill, ME
26-28 Boston
29-30 Poughkeepsie
31-Aug 3 New York City
4 near Cleveland
5-6 Chicago
7-8 Des Moines
9 Cheyenne, Wy
10 Salt Lake City
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