Trip back from Tahoe

I know that you like barbeque so I have to share this story with you. On our recent ‘working’ vacation trip our relatives wanted to share one of their favorites haunts with us except they were a little fuzzy on some of the details. They thought that the name was Mongolian Barbeque Buffet and that it was about $12.95 a plate and that the food was REALLY good.

Well, I do like barbeque and I don’t discriminate with any country’s culture or food. I really didn’t know too much about the Mongolian food fare, but I was willing to try. I really expected a lot of sheep and goat on the menu.

First, I didn’t see anyone that looked like they came from Mongolia. Second, the cost was actually $22.95. Third, I didn’t see any food that I couldn’t buy at Safeway. What really surprised me was all the seafood that was used in the buffet. I don’t know a whole lot of Mongolia but I didn’t realize that they used too much seafood in their diet since Mongolia doesn’t have a seaport. And there wasn’t any barbequed sheep or goat on the menu.


I kid you not, but I saw this road cleanup sign alongside the road as we were coming home from our trip, ‘Improved Order of Red Men. It made me wonder if there was an ‘Unimproved Order of Red Men’ doing community service too. If not, I think that they should consider it.

On our way back we had to go through Redding and it was 117* at 4:00 in the afternoon. That’s the hottest temperature that I’ve ever experienced. In fact, it was so hot I saw a car with Arizona plates that was being carried by a car carrier.

Road signs are interesting too. One we saw was Igo, 2 miles, Ono, 4 miles. They didn’t say what was at 3 miles, but I’m sure it wasn’t as bad as whatever was in Ono!

Have you ever noticed those deer crossing signs along the road. They always show the same deer; a 4 point buck starting to jump. I always want to look in the opposite lane and see if they have a sign of the same deer landing. What I thought was really weird was the deer crossing sign we saw in Gazelle. You’d think that there wouldn’t even be any deer in town called Gazelle!