JEStucker
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- Dec 17, 2017
- Name or Nickame
- Jeff
A little background here-
I was born and raised in Missouri, did a lot of traveling as a kid (Grandparents had property in Colorado and summer trips to see them often involved side camping trips to any number of states) by the time I was 21-22, I had been to every state west of the Mississippi in the lower 48. I turned 23 and decided to head east, with my sights set on New England. I had a friend that was in the Coast Guard and was stationed in Boston, Mass., and he had extra bedrooms in his base provided housing.
I moved, I got a job, I wandered and I loved it, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont, Maine (I love Maine.) So, I met a woman, divorced, kids, fell in love, discovered how expensive it is to live in the North East, and convinced her to move back to Missouri (my old job was always a phone call away, I made sure of that)
We've been married now for 17 years, the kids have grown up, we have grandkids (scary at times) and we try and go back to see her family in Maine at least once a year.
The whole point of this...
Outside of a few restaurant chains trying to edge into the region, these people have no concept of Bar-B-Que. To them a BBQ is when you throw burgers and hot dogs on the gas grill. My brother-in-law is finally grasping the concept, but no one seems to really grasp the art that cooking is...
Now I'm working on sorting out how to get real BBQ to our next family event (reunion in August.) Making it ahead of time is questionable, as it's a 30 hour drive if you go straight through, we usually break it up into 2 days. Don't have a portable smoker (or anything to tow it) and not sure if I could get there and build a UDS in time (or find everything I need)...
Thoughts or Ideas?
I was born and raised in Missouri, did a lot of traveling as a kid (Grandparents had property in Colorado and summer trips to see them often involved side camping trips to any number of states) by the time I was 21-22, I had been to every state west of the Mississippi in the lower 48. I turned 23 and decided to head east, with my sights set on New England. I had a friend that was in the Coast Guard and was stationed in Boston, Mass., and he had extra bedrooms in his base provided housing.
I moved, I got a job, I wandered and I loved it, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont, Maine (I love Maine.) So, I met a woman, divorced, kids, fell in love, discovered how expensive it is to live in the North East, and convinced her to move back to Missouri (my old job was always a phone call away, I made sure of that)
We've been married now for 17 years, the kids have grown up, we have grandkids (scary at times) and we try and go back to see her family in Maine at least once a year.
The whole point of this...
Outside of a few restaurant chains trying to edge into the region, these people have no concept of Bar-B-Que. To them a BBQ is when you throw burgers and hot dogs on the gas grill. My brother-in-law is finally grasping the concept, but no one seems to really grasp the art that cooking is...
Now I'm working on sorting out how to get real BBQ to our next family event (reunion in August.) Making it ahead of time is questionable, as it's a 30 hour drive if you go straight through, we usually break it up into 2 days. Don't have a portable smoker (or anything to tow it) and not sure if I could get there and build a UDS in time (or find everything I need)...
Thoughts or Ideas?