Gotta try the Hamachi, Bill. It's killer!
Posted on 11/07/2004 3:54:26 AM PST by billorites
When Lewis and Clark reached North Dakota this month 200 years ago, the icy Missouri River forced them to set up camp for five months. They built wooden huts, nearly ran out of meat, and Clark lined his gloves with lynx fur to guard against the cold.
A crew re-creating the explorers' 1803-1806 expedition will spend this winter, however, at home.
"I'm looking forward to some sushi," said the crew's captain, Scott Mandrell, 39, of Alton. "That's one thing I've missed desperately, being able to run to Schnucks and buy some sushi."
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No one can call them wimps, though. A core of about eight men from across the Midwest have spent the past six months on the river, having left Camp Wood in Illinois on May 14. About 200 others have joined them at some time or another along the trip.
They made all the original stops, went on some of same hikes (as long as 20 miles) and hunted buffalo. They slept on the keelboat's wooden trunks and ate meals cooked over a fire.
"The most troubling thing were the ticks," Mandrell said.
Worst, they were away from their families. Mandrell returned to Alton for a few days in August so he could take his 6-year-old daughter to her first day of kindergarten. He also has a son, 3. This winter they plan to take a vacation to his wife's family home in Vermont.
"We're going to take some time away in a place Lewis and Clark never went," he said.
"The purpose of our exercise is the journey, not so much the time spent stationary," Mandrell said. "We are not Lewis and Clark. We are the Discovery Expedition. Our mission is to complete the journey. We want to focus on that and make that successful."
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Very cool.....I have a very old book on this expedition.
Hey! That's cheating! Lewis and Clark didn't get a chance to jet back home and eat sushi.
Oh, brother.
Gotta try the Hamachi, Bill. It's killer!
Meriwether! Please remove your hand!
Put some extra wasabi on mine. Its the only thing that kills the taste ;)
Sushi is merely the conveyance on which wasabi is transported, IMHO.
(Which reminds me ... I need to find my copy of "Jackass - The Movie" and watch the 'Wasabi Snooters' segment again. Comedy gold.)
When I am reenacting, (my hubby and I reenact a couple from the 1790s who leave eastern PA to move to KY), what I miss most is my computer...but knowing what Lewis and Clark's people ate by that time (game they shot, stuff they traded with the Indians for, like corn), one might begin to wish for one's favorite foods....For a lot of the original crew, I bet it was something like wishing for wheat bread, butter, potatos...even ham and cabbage. How apoiled we are nowadays...
I admit to liking unagi (smoked eel) and spider rolls, a few others. But it's that damn wasabi that keeps bringing me back. That show, movie and the spin-offs (Viva la Bam, Wildboyz) are the only thing MTV is good for. The wasabi shooter scene was great. I laughed harder at the demo toilet bit, though. The rental car was a good opener. (Sh**, that whole movie was funny!)
Talked to him last night at a birthday party held at our local Holiday Inn.
Which one? Did they trash the place?
LOL the L/C re-enactors or somebody from the Jackass movie?
REAL explorers don't eat sushi.
(just kidding)
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