Guest guest Posted June 19, 2006 Report Share Posted June 19, 2006 Our questions of the week [qotw] for June 18th - 24th: 1. Are you planning any road trips or vacations this summer? 2. What are some travel tips you have used or plan to use that will make dining as a vegetarian easier while on the road? For all the new members, these weekly questions are for everyone and just for fun and sharing. Please feel free to jump right in by participating. If you haven't yet taken the opportunity to post an introduction, you can do so any time. We'd love to get to know you better and help with any questions you might have. ~ PT ~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 19, 2006 Report Share Posted June 19, 2006 I love your questions of the week. Gets folks out of their shells and talking on here. We can learn a lot from each other. Thanks for doing this. Judy - ~ PT ~ Monday, June 19, 2006 9:44 AM QOTW: Vegetarian travel tips? Our questions of the week [qotw] for June 18th - 24th: 1. Are you planning any road trips or vacations this summer? 2. What are some travel tips you have used or plan to use that will make dining as a vegetarian easier while on the road? For all the new members, these weekly questions are for everyone and just for fun and sharing. Please feel free to jump right in by participating. If you haven't yet taken the opportunity to post an introduction, you can do so any time. We'd love to get to know you better and help with any questions you might have. ~ PT ~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 19, 2006 Report Share Posted June 19, 2006 Our questions of the week [qotw] for June 18th - 24th: 1. Are you planning any road trips or vacations this summer? Not at this point. 2. What are some travel tips you have used or plan to use that will make dining as a vegetarian easier while on the road? I check out restaurant/vegetarian guides before going. Usually if I can find a grocery store I'm okay, particularly a Whole Foods, Farmers Market, Health Food Store, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 20, 2006 Report Share Posted June 20, 2006 > Our questions of the week [qotw] for June 18th - 24th: > > 1. Are you planning any road trips or vacations this summer? Probably a few short road trips and long weekend type vacations. My daughter would love us to drive up to Seattle, WA so she can go to a punk band show and tour that city some, so that might be on our agenda. Other than that we have so many home improvement things to do around here that I don't think we will have time [or money! *lol*] for much else. > 2. What are some travel tips you have used or plan to use that > will make dining as a vegetarian easier while on the road? We pack a cooler with lots of veggies, fruits, sandwich fixings, maybe some pasta or bean salads, and drinks. We also pack a few totes full of non-cold staples like: chips, nuts, granola, etc. This way we can load up at grocery stores or farmers markets along the way and always can stop for a healthy, economical picnic lunch to stretch our legs. Everyone notices how much better we feel when we forego the fast food stops that many other travelers take on the SAD [standard american diet] trip stops. We travel more like a gypsy-hippy caravan; footloose & fancy-free! One thing we have to be careful of around this region is the different state to state regulations for transporting fruits and veggies across borders, so we try to buy fresh from each state instead of taking any with us if we are crossing any statelines. ~ PT ~ You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. ~ William Hazlitt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 20, 2006 Report Share Posted June 20, 2006 > 1. Are you planning any road trips or vacations this summer? You betcha! My husband and I are excited to taking a 10 day road trip from Whidbey Island, Washington to Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and Idaho. It will go by fast, but we will camp all along the way. > > 2. What are some travel tips you have used or plan to use that > will make dining as a vegetarian easier while on the road? We pretty much camp and cook ourselves, stopping at grocery stores along the way for fresh veggies, fruit, and beverages. We try and pack the rest from home (bread, oatmeal, tofu jerky, condiments). Sometimes we stop at Wendy's in desperation as they offer the garden salad and baked potato for 99 cents each. We have learned to pack a can opener to open canned veggies if we end up somewhere really remote and they don't offer fresh foods. I've made some fun dinners with canned chick peas, corn and salsa over the fire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 21, 2006 Report Share Posted June 21, 2006 That sounds like a grande adventure, Heidi. Great fun will be had along the road, I am sure. The way you travel is pretty much how we manage it, too. I will have to remember to pack along the can opener though; that is one great tip I hadn't considered. ~ PT ~ Men cannot see their reflection in running water, but only in still water. ~ Chuang Tzu, philosopher (c. 4th century BCE) ~~~*~~~*~~~> , " Heidi Cusworth " <hcusworth wrote: > You betcha! My husband and I are excited to taking a 10 day road trip > from Whidbey Island, Washington to Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and > Idaho. It will go by fast, but we will camp all along the way. > We pretty much camp and cook ourselves, stopping at grocery stores > along the way for fresh veggies, fruit, and beverages. We try and > pack the rest from home (bread, oatmeal, tofu jerky, condiments). > Sometimes we stop at Wendy's in desperation as they offer the garden > salad and baked potato for 99 cents each. We have learned to pack a > can opener to open canned veggies if we end up somewhere really remote > and they don't offer fresh foods. I've made some fun dinners with > canned chick peas, corn and salsa over the fire. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 22, 2006 Report Share Posted June 22, 2006 At 05:40 PM 6/20/2006 +0000, you wrote: > > Our questions of the week [qotw] for June 18th - 24th: > > > > 1. Are you planning any road trips or vacations this summer? I travel a lot, but not as much this summer as usual. I am planning a beach trip and a mountain trip with friends, though. And I just came back from Atlanta a couple weeks ago. > > 2. What are some travel tips you have used or plan to use that > > will make dining as a vegetarian easier while on the road? It really depends on where I'm going. Driving, there's always subway's veggie delite no cheese, or we stop at grocery stores with salad bars and get some to go. Occasionally we do taco bell, but it's not one of my favorites. Flying, I pack stuff to carry with me or if I'm leaving the SF airport, there's a great place that offers wonderful vegan bag lunches you can take on the plane. As far as when I reach my destination, I do some grocery shopping (keeps costs down) and try to get a room with a kitchenette or at least a fridge for hummus and soymilk and stuff. Plus lots of restaurants have vegan stuff available. Some are vegan friendly with their plain menu, some places the restaurants want to be phoned in advance. Often good bets are middle eastern places, chinese places, mexican, thai, veitnamese, many pizza places (hold the cheese and load up on veggies), many italian places have vegan pasta options (just take a look at menus before you sit down), bagel places are often good bets, african restaruants (especially ethiopian), and I'm sure I'm forgetting a lot of others. It's a lot easier in most places than one would think. Veronica Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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