Recently, in some other Sohum blogs, some interest has been expressed in what I have been eating on this trip. So let's get down to it. Breakfast was always 2 oz or less of cereal with whole milk, lunch as far as possible was the same (I’m on the Special K diet, but I’m doing it with Wheaties), So dinner is where the variables come in.

We had our first road dinner on this trip at the Thai Restaurant in Crescent City. It was our first time there, and despite seeing bubble tea posters, we didn’t have it. I remember udon noodles, but Mary Alice says I had a steak.

We overnighted in Grants Pass, with Darryl’s song running through my head. Lunch was at a highway rest stop somewhere in Oregon. But dinner, ah, dinner was at the Ginger Palace, the oriental restaurant in the lobby of the Seattle airport Ramada inn. I’ve posted pix of the fish in the tank talking with the diner, already. I think I had a steak.

Then 3 dinners on the MV Columbia – the Alaska Marine highway boat from Bellingham to Juneau. I recall great variety, but Mary Alice says I probably had steak. In my defense let me say that I am not fond of seafood, and I am fond of two things: beef, and rapid menu choices. On a menu filled with seafood and oriental dishes, how quickly one can order steak.



Our first night in Juneau we ate at Doc Waters, which is on the waterfront as you might imagine. The second night we ate at the Twisted (whatever), down by the cruise ship docks, where I did not have the coconut salmon strips with berry compote. I’m afraid that as with the fried scorpions on a stick in Beijing, my nerve gave out at the crucial moment and I had something ordinary. Night 3 we were at Donna’s, in the mall near the motel, enjoying real Merican food. Mary Alice had chicken fried steak, and I had – what? I would have liked meatloaf but I didn’t see it in time to order it. I had steak smothered in mashed potatoes with a hint of vegetables.



During Celebration we intended to lunch on Indian Frybread by Garfield, who was set up in a kind of tent outside the Alaska Native Brotherhood hall. The first Celebration day we have a kind of meat stew over rice inside the ANB hall. Frybread day 2 and perhaps a taco from the next tent down, washed down with a coke, eaten while sitting on a wall in the drizzle. Very realistic. , Day 3 lunch, after the parade, was up the hill at a storefront café where I had 1/2 of an excellent BLT and part of a pastry.

In Glacier bay we had dinner on the ship during the whale watching cruise on Tuesday.



That was maple glazed salmon and it was really good. Wednesday after an day looking at glaciers, we ate at the lodge, and I had meatloaf and peach pie. Strangely, it came with strawberry ice cream, but didn’t go with it in the culinary sense. Not wanting to offend, I ate it anyway. We went back into the kitchen and complemented the chefs on the dinner and were silent about the dessert.

Last night during a lay-over in Juneau we walked from the airport to the Travelodge where Mi Casa offers the best Mexican food in northern Juneau. I had a quesida with beef (the restaurant has no pork??). You already know what a quesida looks like, right?