Twenty Miles per Cookie: 9000 Miles of Kid-Powered Adventures by Sathre-Vogel Nancy

Author:Sathre-Vogel, Nancy [Sathre-Vogel, Nancy]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Old Stone Publishing
Published: 2011-12-09T05:00:00+00:00

Balo and Ole hid stashes of Gatorade along the side of the road. We spent the next three days finding them. What a treat!

By that point our jaws were hanging down around our belly buttons.

“Okay?” he asked. “Every fifteen or twenty kilometers you’ll find a rock cairn. Near there will be four Gatorades.”

We nodded our heads, unable to speak.

Balo walked over to a cooler and brought out a Ziploc baggie with a big foil-wrapped something and a bunch of napkins inside. “The Gatorade we can hide on the road for you. But these tamales we can’t. You’ll have to eat these soon. ”

I picked my jaw up off the ground and gratefully accepted the bag of tamales.

A mile or so later we found a small patch of shade, sat down to eat our tamales, and I knew I had arrived. Nirvana... utopia... heaven... whatever you want to call it... I was there. That had to rate right up there as the all-time best lunch consumed on the side of the road!

Licking our lips and fingers to get every last tasty morsel, we climbed back on our bikes to begin the treasure hunt. We kept our eyes peeled for a rock cairn, and our boys were giddy with excitement as they scanned the roadside for signs of cairns. When we finally found a pile, the boys jumped off the bike and began searching.

“Mommy!” they squealed in delight when the spied four brightly colored bottles hidden under a bush like baby birds waiting for their mother. “We found it!”

Their delight never dimmed, and each time we discovered another stash the four of us gratefully climbed off our bikes and enjoyed the refreshing liquid in the shade of an enormous cardon cactus.

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