I’d suggest a basket filled with bread still warm from the castle oven, a hard crumbly cheese, and sun-kissed apples from the monastery orchard. Strap on your father’s sword, toss on a cloak, and your’e ready to go.
I’d suggest a basket filled with bread still warm from the castle oven, a hard crumbly cheese, and sun-kissed apples from the monastery orchard. Strap on your father’s sword, toss on a cloak, and you’re ready to go.
Taco Bell bean burrito.
Seriously.
mmm
Years ago, a dear childhood friend of mine got married in her husband’s hometown of Bumblefuck, Maine. We were all broke recent college grads, and four of us borrowed a car from the fifth to drive there from Chicago (airfare was insane and we were too young for many car rental places even to rent to us, and it was the only way we could all afford to go).
A fifth friend, who couldn’t accompany us, showed his support by making us a huge-ass (like 5 lbs.) bag of chocolate espresso beans - he was working in a cafe at the time, and roasted the beans himself. They were awesome for that particular purpose., but I couldn’t look at a chocolate-covered espresso bean for a REALLY long time after that.
Subway is my go-to stop on long road trips, it’s fresh, non-greasy, FAST, and can have plenty of veggies and fiber added. I will buy a footlong, eat half in-store and have the other half cut in half again and wrapped. In between Subway stops and during my regular workday, I like baby carrots, cheezits, dry cereal like Cheerios, graham crackers (regular, sticks, teddy grahams)broccoli florets, almonds, lots and lots of water, oranges precut in eighths, apples,and grapes. I keep a small cooler on the front seat for the anything that needs to be kept cool.
These have all been mentioned (I think) but I’m seconding bananas, trail mix, string cheese, and Snickers bars.
On a trip longer than about 8 hours I would stop and go in someplace to eat and just not be driving for at least 45 minutes. Unless I was really in a hurry.
Fruit, dark bread, sliced ham, milk. Don’t do fast food. In fact never do fast food. Chocolate bars and other kinds of candy are not good either. I once did 24 hours straight on just apples, bananas, bread/w. sliced ham and milk. Barcelona -> Copenhagen.
Get a footlong at a subway and ask them to wrap the halves separately. Do NOT get canned beverages, get liter bottles that you can screw the cap back on once your thirst is quenched.
Oh, and a 14 to 17 hour drive with minimal stops? That’s a bad idea.
Thanks to all. I’m in Denver now. I went with jerky, dried fruit chunks, and bottled water and sodas.
With a lot more rest stops needed than planned for, it was 19 hours almost all in the car.
Lesson 1, never again do a thousand mile drive without a planned overnight stop that includes a bed rather than a reclined car seat.
I can’t improve on this.
I found that out. I’ve done lots of 700-800 mile drives, and thought a thousand mile drive was was just a few more hours. I was wrong.
Feeding scores or hundreds of horses under the hood is a PITA. The time it takes aside, if you spring for oats, they not only get all over the place, they become trapped between the threads of your jerkin.
Worse, when you lead the horses to water they might not drink. So the trip ends up taking weeks , though you’d have time to pick the oats one by one from your jerkin.
I find if I drive over about 12 hours I don’t feel very well when I try to rest that night. I try to limit myself to about 750 miles per day max now.