August 9, 2018

Yesterday we took Coco back to Jason.  She is a very sweet little dog.  We had a nice dinner with Jason and Dan last evening and got to see their pictures from their recent trip to Iceland, Sweden, and Norway.  Beautiful!  These locations are now on my bucket list.

We are spending our last day west of the Cascades.  Tomorrow we start heading east again.  We have 3,690 miles to get back home in St. Augustine, Florida.  We will take a month to do it.

Regis found some blackberry bushes near our current campground, so we have been well supplied with fresh blackberries the last few days.  Yum!

I wanted to mention how we’ve been cooking while in the motor home.  It can be hard to keep the motor home cooled down in hot weather, so we have adopted a cooking routine that helps ensure we don’t heat up the motor home and allows us to eat the most fabulous meals.

A little over a month ago, we started cooking exclusively with our Hestan Cue cookware.  We even bought a second burner and pan so we can both cook if we want to cook multiple things (for example a protein and a side dish).  Hestan Cue is smart cookware that includes an induction burner and pan or pot.   By using Hestan’s video guided recipes, Hestan Cue automatically controls the temperature and time of the food.  That means everything is always cooked to perfection.  Since I tend to overcook, especially eggs and fish, I love this system.   We have better tasting meals by preparing meals in the motor home than if we go out to eat.

Regis has cooked outside on the picnic table using the Cue when it is too hot to cook.  We’ve also become more comfortable using the manual mode when we want to cook something on our own but the Hestan Cue still maintains the temperature of the pan.

We have not used our oven at all on this trip and we stopped using the stove over a month ago.  We still use the microwave to heat up food or cook corn on the cob.

The other night I made Roasted Peach Salad w/Warm Hazlenut Vinaigrette.  One of our favorite recipes is the Honey Chipotle Chicken Wings.  Words cannot describe how delicious they are!

We need cell phone service to use the cookware which is usually not a problem.  Regis has a cell phone booster he puts up if the service is weak.  We primarily need that because we use the cell phones for internet service.  We have only been without cell phone service a few times.  If that happens, we can’t use the Hestan Cue recipes but we can still cook using manual mode.  I am so committed to this cookware now, I donated all of our pots and pans a few days ago.  It has freed up some space in the cabinets!