We are back to the Tour de Café with today’s breakfast at the Lewis and Clark Café. We had excellent service and conversation from Betty (our waitress) and Tammy (our cook). Joe and Jeff went simple with oatmeal, raisins, brown sugar and toast. HP had the more exotic Lewis and Clark breakfast; scrambled eggs and hash browns (cooked with green peppers, onions, ham, and smothered with cheese. Food was great and the conversation fun.
Along the way we were stopped by Gary Green. Gary is touring the west in his pickup truck but really wanted to do it by bicycle. However, an illness forced him off his bike. While we were talking to Gary a state highway patrol officer stopped to talk. Once she satisfied herself that we were all ok, she wanted to talk about our journey.
Joe, true to his promise to smell the roses, stopped at the National Park Service’s Knife River Indian Village. Originally, this village housed the Hidatsa and Mandan tribes who traded with Lewis and Clark’s Corps as they wintered at Fort Mandan. From this village, Lewis and Clark met their guides Charbonneau and his wife Sakakawea.
HP felt at home today. He stopped in the town of Hazen for another Tour de Café stop. There he found a German Café and was delighted to have Sauerkraut for lunch. HP noted that they have become Americanized: they served ketchup with the Weisswuerstel instead of mustard.
At dinner, we met another interesting person. Otto Voegele came by our table to introduce himself. He is 78 years old and born near here. He started his working career as a coal miner, then welder, and now a full time entertainer. He sings Johnny Cash songs at local bars and clubs and has his own auctioneer business. He learned to speak German from his grandfather. While his German was Americanized, HP had a good time talking with him in that language.
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Gentlemen,
ReplyDeleteReally a great thing you are doing. Will track the hijinks - with you in spirit.
Hi Gents...it's marvellous --- what you're doing and that you blog about it. Just picked you up based on the mention in ACA's "Bike Bits." Will you consider posting your approximate daily mileage? Doing so would give additional context to the reader. While I intend to go back and read your previous postings, I am wondering what your encounters have been with dogs on route, if any?
ReplyDeleteI'm a third of the way west-bound on the ACA Southern Tier route, though I ride it in 700 mile increments twice per year. I had very intimidating experiences with dogs (46 of them in 14 encounters over 5 days!) in Mississippi and Louisana.
Ride strong!
Steve S.