Some examples of what we are eating on the road...
Day 1: Take a zuchini and chili salami from the molten ice in the thermobox. Cut and fry on a one pit MSR stove on a beach in the dark. Add some flies and mosquitos for natural protein & flavour. Put aside and cook macaroni on the same stove, when almost ready put aside (leave the hot water in) and add auce from the pot (Dolmio tomato and garlic) to salami/zuchini and heat. Add watery cheese to make washing up more of a challenge and a can of veggies. Mix everything together with a little bit of sand and you will not believe this but it tastes really good!
Don't try this at home...
Day 2: Repeat day one but exchange macaroni for a package of rissoto and forget the Dolmio stuff.
Day 3: Repeat day 1 with a different can of veggies...
Day 4: Take two instant noodle packs and add hot water and the can of veggies (Anita cooked)
Day 5: We were out of dolmio so it was tomato's from a can and asparagus (with macaroni).
Day 6: Run for the hamburger joint!
Stephen Fry:The stars' tennisballs - Very similar to 'the count of Monte Christo' but in a more modern setting. A good read after the first somewhat boring love letters (JH)
Bill Bryson: Downunder - Good book if you plan to travel to Australia. The book gets better towards the end.
Bruce Chatwin: Patagonia
Redmond O'Hanlon: Junglereizen (dutch) - Very good stories about travaling in the jungle as a relatively inexperienced foreigner. Very good read. (Thank you Nathasja for the present!)
Oliver Sacks - Island of the colorblind
Quite a medical story where the authors visits and examines people on an island in the Pacific where 20% of the population is colorblind.
Sally Morgan - My Place
Australian biography about a family of aboriginal origin.
Homer Hickam - October Sky
Autobiographical story of the early days of the space race where boys in a miners town make rockets fly. Gripping book.
Stephen Baxter - Space