The Hundred-Dollar Hamburger

[woodsorrel]

Hi Everyone!

Airplane pilots in the US have a practice they jokingly call “the hundred-dollar hamburger”. It is a short flight to a nearby airport to eat lunch at the airport restaurant. Afterward, the pilot flies home. When you factor in the cost of renting the airplane, the pilot spends about $100 for a measly hamburger. The cost has risen over the years, but the term remains.

Of course, the hamburger is just an excuse to fly! "Making the journey the destination" is a wonderful approach for bushcrafters to adopt. I wish I practiced it more. Here is a coastal hundred-dollar hamburger I did several months ago. I enjoyed this particular hike so much that I plan to do it again in a few weeks.

My hundred-dollar hamburger

Do you have a favorite "hundred-dollar hamburger"? What's the most pleasantly unexpected thing that has happened to you during one of these meanders?

- Woodsorrel

 

[Macaroon]

Good stuff there! A well written and nicely illustrated report of what seems to have been a great hike and balm for the soul!

Thanks for posting this

 

[Ahjno]

Nice report. Shame it's linked to an external website. Why not post it in here?

 

[Harvestman]

My wife and I have been known to drive 60+ miles to the town of Rhayader in mid-Wales, have a cup of tea and a cake in the café, walk around the air ambulance charity shop and come out empty handed, decide we can't be bothered to go to the Elan valley this time, and then go home again. It is a nice trip.

(The charity shop is sometimes very good and does well out of us, but like all such shops it is hit and miss)

 

[Mesquite]

Nice report, I enjoyed that

 

[Whittler Kev]

I've driven with SWMBO to Caister-on-Sea just North of Yarmouth to get fish and chips as we both like them from there, and get a bag of crab claws for £1 as a bonus from the same chip shop (opposite the caravan sites and beside the bus garage). He catches and cooks all he sells himself
A round trip of over 160 miles

 

[woodsorrel]

My wife and I have been known to drive 60+ miles to the town of Rhayader in mid-Wales, have a cup of tea and a cake in the café, walk around the air ambulance charity shop and come out empty handed, decide we can't be bothered to go to the Elan valley this time, and then go home again. It is a nice trip.

(The charity shop is sometimes very good and does well out of us, but like all such shops it is hit and miss)

This sounds like a nice "foraging" trip.

- Woodsorrel

 

[woodsorrel]

I've driven with SWMBO to Caister-on-Sea just North of Yarmouth to get fish and chips as we both like them from there, and get a bag of crab claws for £1 as a bonus from the same chip shop (opposite the caravan sites and beside the bus garage). He catches and cooks all he sells himself
A round trip of over 160 miles

This is very cool! There are several places along the coast in my area where you can purchase seafood directly from the fishermen after they tie-up to the dock. I have never tried it, but it sounds like a terrific outing.

- Woodsorrel

 

[GGTBod]

I cycle a 34 mile round trip about once a month for my favourite fish and chip shop at Tynemouth