You don't have to take the same bus route next year.
I'm wondering if it wouldn't be better to train it
to Brive and get picked up there and just borrow the
car for a day trip or two during the week.

Just took a quick peek, AARP Expedia shows cars available at "Brive",

Alaska

Air Expedia also shows cars available at "Brive" (the airport). Surprise!

There was as I recall a Sixt counter there.

We need to start thinking in vague terms about
spring training. I have to be in Boston on 2/25,
3/15. and 4/12. In Houston 4/13. Some of these
obligations are "official" duties. Interesting, I
never thought of myself as a busy body.

I'll be gone by 4/12, it starts getting indecently hot about April

Fools day.

For planning purposes...I propose the week before or after your 3/15

day, March

25th is the last day anyhow and you know how they start leaving early.

I'll have to start looking at that. The first half
of the year is packing up nicely.

... I'm going to have to go back to work so I can rest up. - Luke Reed

---------- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.01

Title: Queen Elizabeth Cake
Categories: Cakes, Desserts
Yield: 1 servings

1 c -Boiling water 1 Egg
1 c Dates;chopped 1 ts Vanilla
1 ts Baking soda 1 1/2 c Flour,all purpose
1/2 c Butter 1 ts Baking powder
1 c Sugar,granulated 1/2 ts -Salt

------------------------------BROILED TOPPING------------------------------
1/4 c Butter 3/4 c Coconut;shredded;half
nuts
1/2 c Brown sugar;packed -if desired
1/4 c Light cream

"This date and nut cake always included a broiled topping. Lazy Daisy was
a
plain cake with the same topping. ... Queen Elizabeth cakes have appeared
in cook books coast to coast for many years. Some claim that the recipe
was
a favorite of the Queen Mother and given to worthy groups as a fund
raiser
during World War II. One from Quebec's Eastern Townships includes the
footnote that says that, "This is not to be passed on but must be sold
for
charitable purposes for 15 cents.
In a reply to our query about the name of this recipe, the Queen
Mother's
Lady-in-Waiting writes; "I fear I have to tell you that, although we have
known about this recipe for many years, it did not originate from either
Buckingham Palace or Clarence House...However as Her Majesty always made
it
a rule, due to the number of requests receieved, never to give "favorite
recipes", I fear that I have to tell you that you that should you wish to
include this recipe in any cookbook, it should only be called a 'date and
walnut cake' with no reference to the Queen Mother."

Pour water over dates and soda; let stand until lukewarm. In bowl, cream
butter with sugar; beat in egg and vanilla. Mix together flour, baking
powder and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with date mixture.
Spread in a greased and floured 9 inch square cake pan. Bake in 350F oven
for 40 minutes or until tester comes out clean.

Broiled Topping: In a small heavy saucepan, combine butter, packed brown
sugar, light cream and coconut (half nuts if desired). Bring to a boil,
stirring; boil gently for 1 minute. Spread over warm baked cake; broil
until bubbly and lightly browned, watching carefully.

SOURCE: The Forties chapter, _A Century of Canadian Home Cooking_

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