Today’s food adventure covers the travel day Andy and I had that began in Fort Dodge, Iowa and ended in Dublin, Ireland. I was going to do a thing where I calculated how much money I spent on food on this trip, but I didn’t do a very good job of tracking my food purchases and it is complicated as I bought some of Andy’s meals and he bought some of my meals. So it is a mess. Maybe on my next trip to Ireland. I have a deal with Andy that if Iowa ever becomes nationally relevant enough again to be invited to play in Ireland, I will go back to Ireland with him. I would go back to Ireland again in a second. Even if football wasn’t involved. Especially with all of the lessons I learned on this trip.
We were supposed to fly out of Fort Dodge on a Monday and arrive in Dublin on a Tuesday. However, when we got on the plane in Fort Dodge it died before it took off. Then our flight got cancelled due to tornadoes in Chicago. A tornado involved in this trip? I should have seen that as a sign that this was going to be a good trip for the Iowa State Cyclones!
We went home on Monday and came back on Tuesday. We lost a day in Ireland, but it wasn’t the end of the world. I wish we wouldn’t have lost the day, but not the end of the world. On our way to the airport we stopped at a great sounding food truck in Fort Dodge.
Here are my cruddy cell phone pictures from our travel day to Dublin:
Dragon Tacos! How can it not be great!
I drank too much soda on this trip. Way too much!
I got a chicken burrito.
Looks good!
But it was amazing how bland and tasteless it was. Like no spice at all!
May of the same faces at the airport as there were the day before!
We made it in the air!
Andy bought some pizza in O’Hare. I would eat a surprising amount of pizza on this trip.
Airplane supper!
The potato thing was some kind of beef meal and it was the best airplane food I had on this trip!
Not bad. Not bad at all.
My single serving friend on the Chicago to Dublin trip drew this picture of me in her journal while I nodded off.
My single serving friend. She had no real plan for Ireland. She was just going to see what happened for 5 days. She had cities starred on her map and she was going to visit them. Other than that, she had no plans.
It was a pretty great travel day. Even if it was a day late. Next Sunday I will share my pictures from Day 1 in Ireland.
I absolutely love your usage of the term “single serving friend.” When you told me about her and used that phrase, I forgot to ask if you gave her the ass or crotch – and writing it now, I realize that might not come off great if someone doesn’t understand context.
Jon and I have talked about how we would also absolutely take another trip to Ireland! I was trying to rate where I thought it fell in terms of my favorite places to travel, and I absolutely love it. It’s so similar to Scotland in the best ways.
She was on the other side, so she is the one that would have had to make such a decision, but it never came to that. But let’s be real. In real life planes, there isn’t enough room for such a decision. The person has to get up and get in the aisle. That type of decision can be made at a sporting event though.
The thing about Ireland is that almost every day I saw something where I was like, “this is one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever seen.” I would love to visit Scotland. And Wales. That is where my people are from. Maybe I could go see where Poldark was filmed in Wales. Although now I see that Cornwall isn’t actually in Wales.
Due to my tiny bladder, I am an aisle seat person – and you are right. There is no way even a toddler is walking in front of another toddler.
I want to see way more of Scotland, since we were only in Edinburgh – the most nature-y we got was Arthur’s Seat. I also really want to go to Wales! (I was wondering when we were over there if you were British or similar!) I have about 3% from Cornwall vs 2% Irish – most of the rest is British, Scottish, German (with a teeny bit from the Baltics). I would love to visit every country of my ancestry, as well as do Jon’s – he is just heavily Dutch, then Irish and French, so his is a smaller group.