We make a point of going to Grand Canyon every two years, staying two nights in the Bright Angel Lodge so we’ve been there a lot. Once, in 2009 we rode the mules down to Phantom Ranch and stayed two nights there before riding out. This was in March – you couldn’t stay two nights during the summer back then and it is my understanding you don’t have the option, even in March, any more.
A park ranger giving a lecture estimated 95% of the visitors to the South Rim never leave the rim. Bright Angel Lodge is, naturally, close by the Bright Angel trailhead and when I’m wandering about if I spot some people obviously there for the first time, I encourage them to follow me down the trail about fifty yards, enough to put the ground level of the ridge well above their heads, then tell them that statistic.
I missed only one movie in the list, Dirty Dancing.
We have a useful chest refrigerator in our ‘Arizona Room’ – an enclosed patio.
I was there in the late fall or winter – I think it may have been November – in the late 1970’s. The place was almost deserted. I walked around halfway down and stayed at a campground, which I don’t remember the name of, and walked back up the next day.
There were maybe three or four of us in the entire campground, one of whom was a park ranger. The ranger pulled out some weed and we all got stoned.
I don’t suppose the place is ever that close to empty, now; except maybe when they had to close it down.
Ha, that’s great! You Brady Bunch’d to Phantom Ranch! Total score!
I boated to Phantom, days of river life on my body and clothes, found the payphone and called my office for kicks. I got one of my engineers who was very startled and called other team members to the phone for a couple of minutes until my $.25 (or whatever) ran out. That was awesome! Then I hiked back to the raft and we continued down the river for days. I was a minor vacation legend back at work after.
I would guess the Havasupai Garden campground, formerly Indian Gardens. Hikers have a dormitory facility to stay in at Phantom Ranch so they may be able to stay for more than one night. With the mules, we were in the cabins, a more limited resource.
Same here. Also, one of the last helicopters that I was on made an unscheduled landing that damn near killed me and some of my men. We were medevacked from there and that’s the last time I was on a helo.
Two of the three places we live have an stand alone coffin-type freezer. The NY apartment has one about three feet tall, two feet wide.
I haven’t seen a whole bunch of those movies, but I could talk about most of them just from what I picked up by osmosis.
All sandwiches needing cutting are cut diagonally. A bigger, maybe sloppier sandwich may be cut twice diagonally.
No cut off crusts for me growing up. Now, if for some reason my sandwich is made with cheap white bread, I will eat up to the crust and toss it when I’m done. Way too dry and flavorless.
When my kids were little I’d cut their burgers/ruebens/PB&Js/etc into quarters so they could eat neatly without my constant help. I’d cut my sandwiches similarly so they felt it was normal.
Fast forward to today. They are 29 and 31, I’m 65. We all cut our sandwiches in half or quarters always. My daughter’s husband cracked up the first time we all had dinner together.
No crusts were cut off because that’s the best part. We used to fight over the heel.
Well, i guess we didn’t fight over the heel of plain white sandwich bread, but we did with other bread, and certainly no one objected to some brown tasty crust on the edge of the sandwich.
When i get a really big burger, i deconstruct it. I pull out the lettuce to eat as a side salad, eat the meat with a fork, and usually nibble on the bun but fine finish it.
I’m not even sure how I’d count our freezers. We have a small top/bottom fridge/freezer in our antique kitchen. In the back, we have a full freezer, plus another (bigger) top/bottom fridge/freezer. In the garage, we have another full freezer. Four, I guess?
A lot of that came from buying half or whole animals back when there were five of us. With one moved out and the other two not relying on our cooking, we’re working that down and the garage freezer will be gone by summer.
I can sorta do complex math in my head (it depends on your definition of complex), but either way would love to be able to play piano by ear.
I don’t remember whether there were cabins or whether we brought our own tents, or even just used sleeping bags in the open. I did have a backpacking tent at the time and was often sleeping in it (I was travelling around the country with very little money; and at that time there were a lot of places all over the country where you could camp for free or for only a couple of dollars, as well as places where in practice you could camp for free and chances were quite good nobody would show up to chase you off.) I’m sure there wasn’t an actual dorm.
But I also expect that, at least in the off season, you could then have used a cabin for multiple nights; the place was nowhere remotely near capacity.
As I said, I’m pretty sure my mother didn’t throw out the crusts, but either ate them herself or used them for something else; maybe made breadcrumbs out of them.
At the age when I wouldn’t eat the crusts, I also wouldn’t eat any bread other than plain white sandwich bread.
When I started preferring whole grain breads, it took me years to finally get it through my mother’s head that I no longer wanted the basic white. – the length of time was probably affected by the fact that I was no longer living with my parents by then, so the issue only came up during visits.
Growing up in the Bay Area, we would often have a sourdough round in the house. The loaf would slowly turn into some sort of geometrical shape (octagon, hexagon, etc.) as the outer “heel” got cut off by various family members. No cutting of real slices for things like sandwiches or toast until the best part was gone.
Kaiju is a Japanese media genre involving giant monsters. The word kaiju can also refer to the giant monsters themselves, which are usually depicted attacking major cities and battling either the military or other monsters. The kaiju genre is a subgenre of tokusatsu entertainment.
I don’t have a pantry, but there are shelves in the garage that hold quite a bit of canned/dry foodstuffs.
I picked kaiju because 1) They are easier to spot and therefore 2) easier to kill. Vampires, werewolves ans zombies are too “up close and personal.” Kaiju are UFC/Monday Night Football on steroids. Plus, they usually attack Japan first.