I am home now
Jul. 29th, 2003 06:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xiphiasGot home at about 2 or so, actually, so I've been home for hours.
We stopped in Sturbridge for lunch a bit before noon; we went to The Publick House, a tavern, restaurant, and inn which has been in business since about 1770 or so. Some of the menu's been updated, some of it is basically the same. We both went for the meat pie, which is available on Tuesdays. Really, really good.
If you're reading this, and live reasonably close to Sturbridge, and don't keep kosher, and appriciate good food, and especially if you've got free time during weekday lunchtime (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jehanna, this means you -- and I bet solipsistnation could talk people into letting him free for an hour or so for lunch, couldn't he?) I recommend that pie. Ground beef and pork, cloves, nutmeg, cinammon, some other stuff, in a wonderful flaky pie crust. Remember, that's only served on Tuesdays.
Lesse. There was other stuff I wanted to talk about. What was it?
Oh, yeah. I'm in far less pain than I expected to be. My guts are only about 25% as bad as I'd expected them to be after a trip of this length; I attribute this partially to bringing my own bottled water for the trip, and drinking it.
But the amazing thing is -- my skin's only 10% as itchy, painful, and rash-covered as I expected it to be! I got back, and I was FUNCTIONAL! I'm actually going to be able to do some useful things tomorrow!
We attempted a LOT of new things to try to keep my travel damage to a minimum: I suspect that one of the most significant was Gold Bond Medicated Powder. It worked so well that I may start using it in my daily life, even when NOT travelling.
I mean, Lis and I planned for a gradual diminuation of my capacity for useful work over the course of the trip, and included a couple of days of recovery time for me. And I simply never got anywhere NEAR as incapacitated as predicted, and therefore, will need almost NO recovery time!
We stopped in Sturbridge for lunch a bit before noon; we went to The Publick House, a tavern, restaurant, and inn which has been in business since about 1770 or so. Some of the menu's been updated, some of it is basically the same. We both went for the meat pie, which is available on Tuesdays. Really, really good.
If you're reading this, and live reasonably close to Sturbridge, and don't keep kosher, and appriciate good food, and especially if you've got free time during weekday lunchtime (
jehanna, this means you -- and I bet solipsistnation could talk people into letting him free for an hour or so for lunch, couldn't he?) I recommend that pie. Ground beef and pork, cloves, nutmeg, cinammon, some other stuff, in a wonderful flaky pie crust. Remember, that's only served on Tuesdays. Lesse. There was other stuff I wanted to talk about. What was it?
Oh, yeah. I'm in far less pain than I expected to be. My guts are only about 25% as bad as I'd expected them to be after a trip of this length; I attribute this partially to bringing my own bottled water for the trip, and drinking it.
But the amazing thing is -- my skin's only 10% as itchy, painful, and rash-covered as I expected it to be! I got back, and I was FUNCTIONAL! I'm actually going to be able to do some useful things tomorrow!
We attempted a LOT of new things to try to keep my travel damage to a minimum: I suspect that one of the most significant was Gold Bond Medicated Powder. It worked so well that I may start using it in my daily life, even when NOT travelling.
I mean, Lis and I planned for a gradual diminuation of my capacity for useful work over the course of the trip, and included a couple of days of recovery time for me. And I simply never got anywhere NEAR as incapacitated as predicted, and therefore, will need almost NO recovery time!
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Date: 2003-07-29 03:14 pm (UTC)Woo hoo!
Date: 2003-07-29 03:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-07-29 05:19 pm (UTC)A.
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Date: 2003-07-29 08:09 pm (UTC)I've been to the Publick House many times over the years. I think it's great, but I haven't been in ages because they have nothing for vegetarians, which makes it hard to bring
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Date: 2003-07-30 06:22 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-07-30 06:28 am (UTC)Pity. The bread basket alone makes it worth going there. Mmm, corn muffins and sticky rolls....
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Date: 2003-07-30 10:23 am (UTC)"And here's a non-meat dish for our shaker patrons, bound for doom and perdition as they are."
(I'm not sure whether the shakers were, in fact, vegetarian, or contemporaneous with the publick house.)
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Date: 2003-07-30 06:51 am (UTC)