End of a Stressful Vacation

Friday, August 28, 2009

Breakfast: None

Lunch: Bag of peanuts bought from vending machine at rest area in Pennsylvania (330)

Dinner: Two bags of cashews (500); Brown Cow Raspberry Yogurt (170); whole oats w/raisins (400); salad greens (30); sunflower/pepita seeds (200); olive oil (240); 2 oz. cheese (200); edamame beans (130)

Drinks: Two coffees (100); one Fuze water (20); one Pilsner Urquell (150); 24 oz. Sapporo (300)

Walked 10,800+ steps

2008 - 12,000 (3,254,850) AU=5.00 (1594.25)
2009 - 10,800 (4,772,500) AU=3.00 (1078.25)

185-6/0-91

Woke just before 5AM at the Best Western in Winchester, VA after a fitful (barely five hours) sleep. Just couldn't wait to get on the road to head home so we skipped breakfast and kept our rest stops to a minimum. Rolled into my driveway just around 3:30PM. So good to be home.

Shortly after packing, I headed to the Whole Foods to fill my house up with real food. One thing about down South is that they are still about 20 years behind on nutrition. Their supermarkets are full of highly processed foods and poor quality meats and many of the foods I'm used to are nowhere to be found down there unless you are near major city like Atlanta. If you are into Oreo cookies, potato chips, packaged deli meats, etc., the South is the place to be. No wonder the obesity problem is even bigger down there than it is up here.

Anyway, the trip down South this year may well be my last for a while and for many other reasons than described above. Good to be back!