Hello friends,
After a week of resting up and visiting with the Arkansas folks we begin our travels again this morning. We've secured ourselves 27 gallons of prime veggie oil from the Japanese restaurant Osaka. This stuff is like liquid gold. We wanted to take the whole grease trap full and would have if we could. The oil is primarily used for tempura frying therefore can't be used multiple times if a decent standard of quality is to met. Who wants greasy, heavy tempura anyways?
In a few hours we will finish packing the car, say our goodbyes and will drive 3 hr. North to Fayetteville, AR. We will stay the night at the retreat center Wattle Hollow. Check it out. This place is a cob wonderland.
Then we're back in the car and heading across Northeastern Colorado and up into Wyoming through the Rocky Mountains. We had hoped to travel the Trail Ridge Road through the Rocky Mountain National Park but found out last evening that they are doing road repairs all summer up there. The Old Fall River Road has been closed for the entire summer and delays for the Trail Ridge are to be expected. It's not that big of a deal if we change our plan. Anyway we travel we'll hit the Rocky's at some point. Those majestic mounds are about to come alive with the smell of tempura fried veggie oil.
8 comments:
nikki, this is so cool that you are making this trip - using oil and of course the opportunity to see lots of cool stuff around the country.
junie
we need a photo of this veggie-mobile, including a photo of the veggie-tank!
Congrats on the trip, guys. We really enjoyed stopping along the way to pour veggie into our tank instead of pullingup at the pump. -- 3800+ miles on 140 gallons of veg and 2 tanks of diesel. We didn't try yo collect along the way, but we were ablt to connect with some friendly folks who gave us refills, including 62 gallons (!) from one guy in New Orleans.
Good luck!
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Can't wait to check out your new ride in a week! And of course I cannot wait to hang out with the two of you as well!!!
Good Luck!
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kudos dudes! Do you have a mailing address?!? I'll send you some personalized road songs on a medium of your choice (tape/cd/mp3).
Hi Nikki and Jeremy! This is Kristin, the sister of Nikki's childhood friend, Karen.
This trip is perfect material for YouTube, and would be so exciting to see on video! Also thinking as a marketer, your trip is a great plug for GreaseCar. Have you asked them for a sponsorship yet? Call me if you want me to broker the deal (ha!) www.kristinreign.com
Best of luck, KR
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