Home Again

Finally made it home from out adventures about 7PM tonight. What a trip! We left Va Beach late Thursday morning, made it through DC just at the beginning of rush hour, and spent Thursday night with friends of ours in Maryland. Today, we made the long trip home. It took us about 11.5 hours, but we stopped for meals along the way, and bagged a few caches, too.

More good food was ours for the munching Thursday morning and evening. Steve and Marie Louise cooked up a great breakfast at the cottage, and Ken made some veggie quesedillas that'd make the most hardcore carnivore salivate.

Diet Update

Breakfast 10/13 (Barclay Cottage):
Mixed fruit (melons and berries), about 3 oz total
Pumpkin bread, one medium slice, with 1 tsp butter
1-1/2 LARGE banana nut pancakes, topped with bananas, and about 1 tbsp maple syrup (no butter)
3 rashers bacon
20 oz coffee
8 oz water

additional 20 oz coffee while driving

Lunch 10/13 (Cracker Barrel):
Apple Harvest Grilled Chicken Salad (see below)
1/2 cup apple sauce
1/2 cup green beans
20 oz iced tea

Dinner 10/13:
1 spinach & bean quesedilla
~ 10 corn chips w/ mango salsa
1 brownie, w/ ~2 oz Starbucks low fat latte (yum, yum and double yum!)

Breakfast 10/14 (McDonalds):
Sausage biscuit w/ cheese
Hash brown
16 oz coffee
8 oz water

Snack (McDonalds):
1/2 Apple-Walnut salad
16 oz coffee

Lunch 10/14 (Burger King, yeah, we ate well, didn't we...):
Spicy Chicken sammich
Large garden salad w/ ~1 tbsp light italian dressing
16 oz iced tea

Dinner 10/14 (Max & Erma's):
Side tossed salad w/ bleu cheese dressing on the side
Fish & chips (I ate two of the three fillets, and less than half the fries)
~ 1/2 cup cole slaw
36 oz iced tea

I certainly didn't eat the best I could have, but I'm pretty happy that I ate better than I normally would have. Weigh in on Sunday night will tell the tale.

By the way, if you go to Cracker Barrel, try their Apple Harvest Grilled Chicken Salad. Wow, was that good! It had a grilled chicken breast, about 3 oz of meat, a whole apple, grapes colby cheese and about 8 oz of lettuce, and it comes with an apple cider/raspberry vinagrette dressing. Way killer! I may have to convince Amy do have lunch or dinner there this weekend, just so I can have another. It's seasonal, so get it while you can!