Originally Posted by
Cyclebum
My first thought is 'she's going to be at a fairgrounds, presumably in/near a town. Food should not be a problem.'
Food won't be
. But Jefferson is a pretty typical small Midwestern farm town, so if I want tea for my tea-snob self I'd better have a way to make it. If I liked coffee, I probably would not want any cooking gear at all for this trip. Sadly, I cannot make myself like coffee. I've tried
.
The simplest, most inexpensive way to boil a few cups of water is
with fuel tabs. 2 will boil a cup in about 8 minutes, shielded from wind.
Hrm. I'd looked at those, but I wasn't clear on how well they'd do for mass tea production. It has to be over about 80F in the morning before I'm likely to keep my tea intake below 1L per day. The colder I feel when I get up, the faster I head straight for the teakettle. I just got back from a week of campfire cooking in the Boundary Waters, and having to wait an hour or two for my morning tea was definitely up there for torture.
Sounds like I should stuff my panniers with the tent, my sleeping bag and bike down to the super close county park that allows camping to see if I am happy with my bag without a pad. Then I can whine in a more informed way. Thanks
.