Название: The Hungry Cyclist: Pedalling The Americas In Search Of The Perfect Meal
Автор: Tom Davies Kevill
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Хобби, Ремесла
isbn: 9780007362820
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‘Come a long way?’ they asked.
‘London. You?’
‘Devon. Sandwich?’
I took a damp triangle of bread and meat from a neat tinfoil parcel.
‘Thank you.’
‘We’ve been saving them just for this.’
And so, sitting on the continental divide of North America, I munched on a roast beef and horseradish sandwich. By no means the perfect meal, but as I huddled from the cold, the snow swirling in the white air, it tasted just great.
The melt-water from the vast Athabasca glacier rushes in three directions. To Alaska, to the Atlantic and west towards the Pacific. Having struggled in the opposite direction to the rushing waters that flowed east, I was now at last going with the flow and following the rushing rivers that poured west into British Columbia and the open waters of the Pacific.
Camped at the foot of Mount Robson in an area of deforested wasteland that resembled an abandoned battlefield, I was awakened at dawn by the all-too-familiar sound of rain on my tent. Looking at my map the Mount Robson visitor centre was close by and, if the other visitor centres were anything to go by, it would be open in a few hours and there would be some free over-brewed coffee there and possibly a rest room.
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