How To Have A Weeks Worth Of Fun In 3 Days

[1940plymouth]

Other than making a left at Niagara Falls, have you guys mapped out an actual route as of yet?

 

Looking forward to reading about your adventures and seeing many photos.

 

Good luck to both of you,

Bob

[48ply1stcar]

We had frost warnings in northern Minnesota last week, so come on through.

[BobT-47P15]

Does sound like a fun trip.  Don't believe you will go thru my neck of the woods in southwest Missouri.  So will just have to

look at the pictures and read the stories.  

[frankieflathead]

Sounds like an epic drive, Don. Too bad you're not going to get any farther east than Niagara. That's an 8+ hour drive from me in a modern car. I would've liked to meet you guys. So I'll just wish you all a bon voyage!

[deathbound]

You'll pass right by my house when you go through So Cal.

Edited August 21, 2013 by deathbound

[mrwrstory]

What's the latest on the trip?  Even a rough itinerary would get me thinkin on where and when to meet on the West coast.  I imagine others are curious also after you threw out bone.

[Don Coatney]

Still making plans. Will leave around the 10th of next month. Two days to Buffalo, 6-7 days to Seattle depending on how many stops we make. 3-5 days to San Francisco, 1-2 days to Carmel once again depending on stops. Once we are on the road I will report progress daily assuming I find internet access.

[1940plymouth]

Looking forward to your daily reports. 

[greg g]

So have you ruled out visiting the Syracuse area???

[Don Coatney]

So have you ruled out visiting the Syracuse area???

Not completly. Do you have room for us to spend the night?

[greg g]

Can make arrangements.  If not here, then close by.  We have our niece in our guest room but, there are accommodations near enough and there may be salt potatoes.................

[1940plymouth]

With the 10th a week from today, just wondering how the planning and fine tuning are coming along

 

Hopefully you can stop to visit Greg and have some salt potatoes, they are great

Edited September 3, 2013 by 1940plymouth

[pflaming]

Some guy in GA told me about Dilla eggs, but  I've never heard of "salt potatoes".. 

[_shel_ny]

Some guy in GA told me about Dilla eggs, but  I've never heard of "salt potatoes".. 

 

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/syracuse-salt-potatoes/

 

Pretty much like other potatoes. Store sells you a 5# bag.  Has 4# potatoes, 1# salt

[greg g]

Salt potatoes are a regional thing here in the Syracuse area.  They originated as a cheap lunch for workers at the local salt works.  Syracuse was the nations largest supplier of salt till the early 1900's.  Salt was recovered from brine pumped from wells located in the ills south of the city.  It was evaporated in solar pods and in heated cauldrons.   Workers would purchase culled potatoes (to small for regular marketing) tie them up in cheesecloth or a bandanna, and toss the in the cauldron. When the lunch bell rang, they were recovered and eaten for or with lunch.  When cooked, the potatoes develop a encrustation of salt.  Served with melted butter, they became traditional summer fare at picnics, bbq's pig roasts, clambakes, and other celebratory repasts.  To try them, 2 lbs small (golfball size) potatoes. water to cover, 4 cups table salt, bring to a boil cover and simmer till potatoes are fork tender.  When cooked, place the potatoes i a bowl so as to retain heat, and serve 3 or 4 in a small bowl with melted butter.   

 

Now to the story of the other regional lunch item.  The long sandwich of cold meat and vegetables commonly called a Submarine sandwich. Here they are named after the folks who typically bought them and had them for two meals a day.  After a hearty breakfast, the young fellows would order up a sandwich to go.  typically made on a small loaf of Italian style bread, the sandwich was made of the Inns or tavern's cold meat, then add in some local seasonal vegetables, and choice of condiment most likely Mustard.  Wrap it n butcher's paper and the fellow would have his food for his lunch and dinner breaks.  The fellows were the mule handlers along the towpath of the Erie Canal.  The folks were generally younger boys 11 to 15 years old, and they walked along the towpath tending the mules and the tow lines, and working the locks along the passage.  They were referred to as Hoagies, and the sandwiches were named for them, not Submaries, or heros, or grinders ( what ever that New England term refers to)  The only other group that has a legitimate claim to that style sandwich would be the Po' Boys in Louisiana.

[Guest bewillie]

And you haven't had salt potatoes until you've had them cooked by Grage out in the parking lot of a crusein. UMMMM GOOOOOOOD!

[1940plymouth]

Wishing you guys a safe trip and lots of fun starting tomorrow if the adventure is still a  "go"

[TodFitch]

Wishing you guys a safe trip and lots of fun starting tomorrow if the adventure is still a  "go"

 

A proponent of having a single threads where possible started another thread for that.

 

http://p15-d24.com/topic/34094-road-trip-through-the-americas/

[1940plymouth]

Thanks Tod

[Robert Horne]

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/syracuse-salt-potatoes/

 

Pretty much like other potatoes. Store sells you a 5# bag.  Has 4# potatoes, 1# salt

This recipe sounds like a recipe for a heart attach with all that salt and butter...

[greg g]

You eat them in moderation.  Only 2 or 3 times a week from May to October.  See don't eat them but may once or twice the rest of the year.  For the feint of heart use less salt, but then whats the point???

[1940plymouth]

I have to ask, is there any reason I can't find the new thread on Don's trip other than the link that Tod posted to my replay last evening?

 

By the way, we had salt potatoes the other night for supper, then the past few mornings what were left over got cut up and fried with some onions, darn good

 

Thanks,

Bob

Edited September 10, 2013 by 1940plymouth

[Lloyd]

If you guys come by Houston you can help me put an engine and tranny in my 39!

Seriously sounds like fun. Wish I could meet up. My job takes me away for weeks at a time but if Im home I have 3 rooms and a couch if anyone needs a break.

[TodFitch]

I have to ask, is there any reason I can't find the new thread on Don's trip other than the link that Tod posted to my replay last evening?

Do you check the "Off Topic" area when you check for posts?

[W.F. Brown- III]

Sorry I missed you all when you came to the big city of Nebo, NC this afternoon.  I was tied up at the Fire Department with some annual recertification class.  I'd have much rather been home.