The kitchen work has been great! Organized and stocked, we are turning out some fantastic meals! Arista di Maiale with home-made bread dressing, Halibut Seviche on fresh fried corn tortillas, and strangely enough...the Chicken Marsala got rave reviews!! We are very busy these days, learning lots, and making up for what we don't know with hard work and improvisation.
It's funny how the news seems so far away. The death of George Carlin, a cruise ship sinking, more hedge fund perp walks on Wall St. The "fake world" seems a million miles away, and yet this very remote place relies so heavily on the infrastructure and mobility provided by those institutions. Life up here is the tip of the spear, so to speak, and without the ability to move people and stuff cheaply and easily, the standard of living here drops precipitously.
Which is not to say that life here, and the lodge operation, could not quickly reorganize at a new, nearly equal, level of comfort. It would take some serious re-tooling, but it could be done. Alternative energy sources: solar power, wood heat and cooking, even a wood fired, steam powered electrical generator!
Feeling far away. As we settle in to our routine, entertaining, cooking, socializing with new groups of clients, it is hard not to feel the remoteness of this place. Elizabeth and I went for a kayak yesterday, and as we paddled away from the lodge (population 14 this week) we felt like we were finally getting away from it all!! Truly isolated and alone, mid-bay, 100 miles from the nearest town.
We were peaceful, quiet... small. I guess our sense of isolation and wilderness will necessarily adjust to the new 'norm'.
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