How to eat a meal at night in a van while on the highway.

 

Step 1:  secure your thermos.  The coffee must flow.  And as this is the most essential part of your meal, secure it.

Step 2: find your sandwich.  This will incorporate a bit of groping around in the dark.  Hopefully, you have a good idea where it in the bag.  Remove, unwrap, take bite, now secure sandwich.

Step 3: drink coffee.  Note you do not want to drink your coffee at the same time as you are attmepting to eat the sandwich on a bumpy highway, in the dark with only your lap as a table. So make sure that sandwich is secure before you go for the coffee.  Unscrew the thermos bottle, take the small cup and pour A LITTLE BIT OF COFFEE into the cup

This is important for two reasons

1.  too much coffee will spill over.  A little coffee in the cup on the other hand is manageable during a bumpy ride

2. A little bit of coffee cools down fast so yiu can drink it and move back to the sandwich

So now youve had a drink of your coffee.  Finish off what is the cup. Now secure the thermos and go back to your sandwich

Step 4.  At this point you have the basic routine.  Alternate between sandwich and coffee

2am gas break

No one is speaking,  everyone is awake, but it is cold and the ride is bumpy and we all want to sleep.  To be done with the ride, to find our apartments, set our things in order and then sleep.

This moment right here is a major part of the reason I tend to smoke so much in Uman, hopefullly i will be able to avoid it this time