EXIT GLACIER & TRIP SANDWICHES
Sometimes we feel inconsequential, especially when standing next to a mountain, but observing glaciers over these past few days, watching the moraine being pushed to the edge makes me realize -- These are little pieces of mountain, chopped up by – SNOWFLAKES. Maybe one little flake CAN make a difference. Perhaps each of us is not so inconsequential.
Today, we’re at Exit Glacier just outside of Seward.
Today, we’re at Exit Glacier just outside of Seward.
Trip Sandwiches And Other Flashbacks
It’s time for lunch after hiking to the glacier. Our lunch: Trip Sandwiches: Cotto Salami, lettuce, thinly sliced tomato, cheese and the most important ingredient of all – Sandwich Spread – the good kind with little chunks of pickle in it – all on wheat bread.
In 1972, I travelled in a red, white & blue Chevy panel truck complete with blue curtains with white stars and a huge wooden box on top to store supplies for a three month escapade. Our travel group ranged from 5 to 8 and we travelled from San Diego to Vancouver, through New Mexico Ski Country to Texas, Mardi Gras, on to the Florida Keys and back home to Wisconsin. I spent $300 on that trip. We lived on Trip Sandwiches, which fit into our budget. Gas was also cheap at the time. I recall filling up the tank at 26 cents/gallon in Texas during that 1972 trip.
But I digress. A lot has changed. I’m older and able to afford more comfortable accommodations. Had anyone given me a picture of all that life’s brought since 1972, I wouldn’t have believed it. The inevitable heartache and loss has been endured, but the people I’ve surrounded myself with and those I’ve met have enriched life more than I ever could have imagined. The places I’ve been blessed to see and the comfort in which I can now experience the world whether travelling or at home is mind-boggling. Some things, thankfully, don’t change. I’m sitting in our rented motorhome, parked at the bottom of gorgeous Exit Glacier outside of Seward (our second visit in the last few days). I’m eating a Trip Sandwich.
These sandwiches will always bring back memories of that first trip which instilled the love of travel, particularly in untraditional ways. Trip sandwiches will also always remind me of my travel partners, one now my husband whose eating sandwiches with me today, and others who are all still close friends after more than four decades. Travel brings us together, and food triggers memories. Trip sandwiches will always taste incredible, especially in awesome surroundings, where I typically get hungry for them.
It’s time for lunch after hiking to the glacier. Our lunch: Trip Sandwiches: Cotto Salami, lettuce, thinly sliced tomato, cheese and the most important ingredient of all – Sandwich Spread – the good kind with little chunks of pickle in it – all on wheat bread.
In 1972, I travelled in a red, white & blue Chevy panel truck complete with blue curtains with white stars and a huge wooden box on top to store supplies for a three month escapade. Our travel group ranged from 5 to 8 and we travelled from San Diego to Vancouver, through New Mexico Ski Country to Texas, Mardi Gras, on to the Florida Keys and back home to Wisconsin. I spent $300 on that trip. We lived on Trip Sandwiches, which fit into our budget. Gas was also cheap at the time. I recall filling up the tank at 26 cents/gallon in Texas during that 1972 trip.
But I digress. A lot has changed. I’m older and able to afford more comfortable accommodations. Had anyone given me a picture of all that life’s brought since 1972, I wouldn’t have believed it. The inevitable heartache and loss has been endured, but the people I’ve surrounded myself with and those I’ve met have enriched life more than I ever could have imagined. The places I’ve been blessed to see and the comfort in which I can now experience the world whether travelling or at home is mind-boggling. Some things, thankfully, don’t change. I’m sitting in our rented motorhome, parked at the bottom of gorgeous Exit Glacier outside of Seward (our second visit in the last few days). I’m eating a Trip Sandwich.
These sandwiches will always bring back memories of that first trip which instilled the love of travel, particularly in untraditional ways. Trip sandwiches will also always remind me of my travel partners, one now my husband whose eating sandwiches with me today, and others who are all still close friends after more than four decades. Travel brings us together, and food triggers memories. Trip sandwiches will always taste incredible, especially in awesome surroundings, where I typically get hungry for them.
Motorhome - circa 1972